centre of a controversy about board governance issues at the storied New York University. Lipton is the Chairman of the Board at NYU, and together with his hand picked President, John Sexton, is trying to push through a large list of aggressive commercial changes at the university. After five NYU faculties recently had a no confidence vote in Sexton, Lipton refused to listen.barrages of millions of packets of data, but not outright takeover.

"If you own (seize control of) the router, you own the data of all the companies and government organizations that sit behind that router," FireEye Chief Executive Dave DeWalt told Reuters of his company's discovery.

The attacks have hit multiple industries and government agencies, he said.

Cisco confirmed it had alerted customers to the attacks in August and said they were not due to any vulnerability in its own software. Instead, the attackers stole valid network administration credentials from targeted organizations or managed to gain for themselves physical access to the routers.

"We've shared guidance on how customers can harden their network, and prevent, detect and remediate this type of attack," Cisco said in a statement.

Cyber spies seen responsible

Altogether, FireEye's computer