This made me smile. Glad to see he's back on his feet.

Michael Lynn, the hacker who hit the headlines in July for exposing a Cisco router flaw is now employed by arch-rival Juniper, according to the vendor. Juniper declined to reveal what role Lynn is occupying.

The security researcher was dramatically sued by Cisco earlier in the year after he discovered a Cisco router IOS flaw and defied the networking giant and then-employer ISS to publicise the flaw at a hacking convention in Las Vegas.

Lynn was widely regarded as a hero by many in the internet community in the wake of the scandal but many doubted if he could again find gainful employment as a security researcher.

For its part, Cisco was widely castigated for its heavy-handed tactics in stopping Lynn from further publicising his findings, with some commentators suggesting that the internet could be at threat if similar whistle-blowers are discouraged to come clean on flaws.

posted by mt at 09:40