CISCO ROUTER HACKING -1

why hack a cisco router?

You probably are wondering.. why hack into a cisco router?

The reason being is that they are useful when it comes to breaking into other systems...

Cisco routers are very fast, some with 18 T1 connections on one system, and they are very flexible and can be used
in DoS attacks or to hack other systems since most of them run telnet.

They also have thousands of packets going through them at any one time, which can be captured and decoded... A lot
of cisco routers are also trusted systems, and will let you have a certain amount of access to other computers on
it's network.





finding a cisco router

Finding a cisco router is a fairly easy task, almost every ISP will route through at least one cisco router. The
easiest way to find a cisco router is to run a traceroute from dos (type
"tracert" and then the IP address of
anyone's computer), you can trace pretty much anyone because the trace will show all of the computer systems between
your computer and their computer. One of these systems will probably have the name "cisco" in it's name. If you find
one like this, copy down it's IP address.

Now you have the location of a cisco router, but it may have a firewall protecting it, so you should see if it's
being blocked by pinging it a couple times, if you get the ping returned to you, it might not be blocked. Another
way is to try to access some of the cisco router's ports, you can do this simply by using telnet, and opening a
connection to the router on port 23.. If it asks for a password, but no username, you are at the router, but if it
wants a username aswell, you are probably at a firewall.

Try to find a router without a firewall, since this tutorial is on the routers and not how to get past the
firewalls. Once you're sure you have found a good system, you should find a proxy server which will allow you to use
port 23, this way your IP will not be logged by the router.