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From Wired, http://www.wired.com/2015/12/juniper-networks-hidden-backdoors-show-the-risk-of-government-backdoors/:

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.

"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]."

Big fun.
12 posted on 12/23/2015 10:14:43 PM PST by TChad
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To: TChad

I am behind the times... what is juniper?


16 posted on 12/24/2015 5:17:03 AM PST by Bikkuri ((...))
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