Michael Lynn

Michael Thomas Lynn (born September 6, 1980) is an American computer security expert currently employed by Juniper Networks and known for his presentation on vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS at Black Hat and the controversy with Cisco Systems that followed. He was formerly an employee of Internet Security Systems (ISS). Lynn attended Trinity High School in Euless, Texas, and then attended the University of Texas at Austin, majoring in mathematics. As... more

Michael Thomas Lynn (born September 6, 1980) is an American computer security expert currently employed by Juniper Networks and known for his presentation on vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS at Black Hat and the controversy with Cisco Systems that followed. He was formerly an employee of Internet Security Systems (ISS). Lynn attended Trinity High School in Euless, Texas, and then attended the University of Texas at Austin, majoring in mathematics. As of 2009, he attends the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign working on a degree in computer science. Lynn came to widespread attention in July 2005 following a controversy, informally known as "Ciscogate", that resulted from his research into a major security vulnerability of Cisco IOS, the operating system used on Cisco Systems routers and other networking equipment. The vulnerability concerned IOS' handling of IPv6 packets and whether or not the problem could allow the routers to be exploited remotely. Although Cisco had originally... less