Security News

T9000 backdoor steals documents, records Skype conversations, victims' actions (Help Net Security)
2016-02-08 13:49

A new backdoor Trojan with spyware capabilities is being used in targeted attacks against organizations based in the United States. It has been dubbed T9000, since it's a newer, improved version of th...

Year-old crypto flaw in Socat created a potentially intentional backdoor (Help Net Security)
2016-02-04 09:11

A backdoor has been discovered in Socat, a popular open source network administration tool similar to Netcat, and its unclear how it hasn't been spotted earlier or at the time the backdoor was introdu...

Socat slams backdoor, sparks thrilling whodunit (The Register)
2016-02-03 00:31

Crypto flaw was so glaring it may be intentional eavesdropping backdoor (ArsTechnica)
2016-02-02 19:46

Chip chomped as dev's debug backdoor found in Android phones (The Register)
2016-02-02 06:01

New Cross-Platform Backdoors Target Linux, Windows (SecurityWeek)
2016-02-01 15:16

Encryption Backdoor Comic (Schneier blog)
2016-01-30 01:01

Government Agencies Audit for Juniper Backdoor (Threatpost)
2016-01-26 15:25

Government agencies have until Feb. 4 to audit their IT infrastructure for the use of backdoored Juniper Networks’ Netscreen firewalls.

Juniper Backdoor: How Are Vendors Responding? (InfoRiskToday)
2016-01-26 14:27

US Government Agencies Asked About Juniper Backdoor Patching (SecurityWeek)
2016-01-26 10:57