Security News

Cisco Systems will be auditing their code for backdoors (Help Net Security)
2015-12-22 14:54

In the wake of the discovery of two backdoors on Juniper's NetScreen firewall devices, Cisco Systems has announced that they will be reviewing the software running on their devices, just in case. A...

ISC's infocon turns yellow to reflect critical impact of Juniper backdoors (Help Net Security)
2015-12-22 10:21

SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center has raised its infocon status - the status of the condition of the Internet infrastructure - from green to yellow, following the public revelation of two backdoo...

Juniper Backdoor Password Goes Public (Threatpost)
2015-12-21 21:12

The password protecting one of the two Juniper backdoors was published after it was discovered by researchers at Fox-IT and Rapid7.

Who planted the backdoors in Juniper's firewalls? (Help Net Security)
2015-12-21 14:12

Who put the recently discovered "unauthorized code" in ScreenOS, which effectively opened a backdoor in Juniper's NetScreen firewall devices and allowed attackers to decrypt VPN connections? Specul...

Week in review: ScreenOS backdoor, Twitter warns about state-sponsored attacks, and MacKeeper data breach (Help Net Security)
2015-12-21 06:45

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: Critical ScreenOS bugs allow undetectable decryption of VPN connections, device hijacking During a recent internal...