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Backdoor Found in Firewall, Suspected NSA's Doing
2015-12-21 21:21:03 Post No. 10918
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Backdoor Found in Firewall, Suspected NSA's Doing
Anonymous
2015-12-21 21:21:03
Post No. 10918
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http://www.wired.com/2015/12/juniper-networks-hidden-backdoors-show-the-risk-of-government-backdoors/
>On Thursday, tech giant Juniper Networks revealed in a startling announcement that it had found “unauthorized” code embedded in an operating system running on some of its firewalls.
>The security community is particularly alarmed because at least one of the backdoors appears to be the work of a sophisticated nation-state attacker.
>“The weakness in the VPN itself that enables passive decryption is only of benefit to a national surveillance agency like the British, the US, the Chinese, or the Israelis,” says Nicholas Weaver, a researcher at the International Computer Science Institute and UC Berkeley.