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Overnight Cybersecurity: Negotiators say data deal close at hand

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Feb

2016

The government may have used compromised software for up to three years, exposing national security secrets to foreign spies, according to lawmakers and security experts. Observers increasingly believe the software defect derived from an encryption “backdoor” created by the National Security Agency. Foreign hackers likely re-purposed it for their own snooping purposes. The House Oversight […]

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New Cross-Platform Backdoors Target Linux, Windows

02

Feb

2016

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered a Linux backdoor that has been migrated to Windows and added a series of new capabilities. The malware was initially spotted on Linux systems, where it had a full set of features that allowed the attackers to monitor all a victim’s activities, including the ability to capture audio and […]

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Researchers Solve Juniper Backdoor Mystery; Signs Point to NSA

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Dec

2015

Security researchers believe they have finally solved the mystery around how a sophisticated backdoor embedded in Juniper firewalls works. Juniper Networks, a tech giant that produces networking equipment used by an array of corporate and government systems, announced on Thursday that it had discovered two unauthorized backdoors in its firewalls, including one that allows the […]

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