“NSA suspected in Juniper firewall backdoors”
There’s no doubt about it. I have a friend who quit a Juniper subcontractor that was working on this because he wanted nothing to do with it.
Details come out after another exploit installed... what do you want to bet?
Intel, Microsoft and probably Google are also involved.
Stasi. They cannot stand anything that the government cannot be allowed to read. UnAmerican.
Ronald Prins, founder and CTO of Fox-IT, a Dutch security firm, said the patch released by Juniper provides hints about where the master password backdoor is located in the software. By reverse-engineering the firmware on a Juniper firewall, analysts at his company found the password in just six hours.Big fun."Once you know there is a backdoor there, the patch [Juniper released] gives away where to look for [the backdoor] which you can use to log into every [Juniper] device using the Screen OS software," he told WIRED. "We are now capable of logging into all vulnerable firewalls in the same way as the actors [who installed the backdoor]."
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son
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Probably small consolation but this is only for ScreenOS and specifically does not mention JunOS which is the one I see in day to day use. FWIW.
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