Government Agencies Audit For Juniper Backdoor

Most U.S. government agencies have until Feb. 4 to audit their IT infrastructure for the use of backdoored Juniper Networks’ Netscreen firewalls. Letters went out late last week from the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee to the leaders of the various agencies asking them to provide th...

Juniper Networks ScreenOS Denial of Service Vulnerability

Juniper Networks ScreenOS is a Juniper Networks operating system that runs in the NetScreen family of firewalls. A denial of service vulnerability exists in Juniper Networks ScreenOS. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause an application to crash, denying service to legitimate user...

Juniper Firewalls with ScreenOS Backdoored Since 2012

Juniper Networks has announced that it has discovered "unauthorized code" in ScreenOS, the operating system for its NetScreen firewalls, that could allow an attacker to decrypt traffic sent through Virtual Private Networks VPNs. It's not clear what caused the code to get there or how long it has...