Tag: backdoor
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Sell Out Hackers: The Zero-Day Exploit Market
Exploit sellers arm governments and businesses, but are they harming security for everyone else? Remember the final battle scene in Star Wars: A New Hope? Remember how Luke Skywalker slotted a bomb from his X-Wing down the Death Star’s exhaust port to blow the spherical space-station apart? Well that port is much like a zero-day…
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PRIVACY SOS: Remote Monitoring & Access, Spy Tech Secretly Embeds Itself In Phones
In 2008, a Reston, VA based corporation called Oceans’ Edge, Inc. applied for a patent. On March, 2012 the company’s application for an advanced mobile snooping technology suite was approved. The patent describes a Trojan-like program that can be secretly installed on mobile phones, allowing the attacker to monitor and record all communications incoming and…
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How NSA access was built into Windows
Careless mistake reveals subversion of Windows by NSA? A CARELESS mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access system is built into every version of the Windows operating system now in use, except early releases of Windows…