Cisco over the last years, has been nothing but a flurry of security issues, hundreds ( thousands? ) of CVEs and usually are well known to ship their devices with hardcoded passwords and hidden accounts.
It got so bad, that in their last global event in Amsterdam in the keynote ( available on YouTube ) their CEO (or CTO.. cant recall) started within the first minutes by apologizing for the past security issues.
It got so bad, that in their last global event in Amsterdam in the keynote ( available on YouTube ) their CEO (or CTO.. cant recall) started within the first minutes by apologizing for the past security issues.
Nothing on this is likely to stop this trend.