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Popular WordPress plugin opens backdoor, steals user credentials

March 7, 2016

If you are one of the 10,000+ users of the Custom Content Type Manager (CCTM) WordPress plugin, consider your site to be compromised and proceed to clean your installation up, …

Most infosec pros consider government-mandated encryption backdoors a bad idea

March 4, 2016

Apple and the FBI have been engaged in a legal battle over the federal government’s right to require built-in smartphone encryption software that could aid law enforcement …

Linux Mint hack: Backdoored ISOs, stolen forums database

February 22, 2016

The web properties of the project developing Linux Mint have been compromised, and the attacker managed to put up a backdoored version of the distro for download for a little …

Government-mandated crypto backdoors are pointless, says report

February 12, 2016

If you needed another confirmation that government-mandated backdoors in US encryption products would only serve to damage US companies’ competitiveness without actually …

T9000 backdoor steals documents, records Skype conversations, victims’ actions

February 8, 2016

A new backdoor Trojan with spyware capabilities is being used in targeted attacks against organizations based in the United States. It has been dubbed T9000, since it’s …

Year-old crypto flaw in Socat created a potentially intentional backdoor

February 4, 2016

A backdoor has been discovered in Socat, a popular open-source network administration tool similar to Netcat, and its unclear how it hasn’t been spotted earlier or at …

Versatile Linux backdoor acts as downloader, spyware

January 25, 2016

Another Linux Trojan has been discovered by researchers, and this one is pretty versatile: it opens a backdoor into the infected device, can download and run additional …

SSH backdoor found in more Fortinet devices, exploit attempts spotted in the wild

January 25, 2016

In case you missed it, Fortinet announced last week that the recently discovered FortiOS SSH backdoor – or, as they call it, “a management authentication …

“Deliberately hidden” backdoor found on US government’s comms system

January 22, 2016

Researchers from Austrian infosec outfit SEC Consult have unearthed what they dubbed a “deliberately hidden backdoor account” in NX-1200, a network controller …

Cheap web cams can open permanent, difficult-to-spot backdoors into networks

January 14, 2016

They might seems small and relatively insignificant, but cheap wireless web cams deployed in houses and offices (and connected to home and office networks) might just be the …

Fortinet says backdoor found in FortiOS is “a management authentication issue”

January 13, 2016

Fortinet, the company whose enterprise network security offerings include the popular FortiGate firewall platform, has issued a statement regarding a security issue that has …

Most IT pros oppose government backdoor access

January 11, 2016

Close to two-thirds of global IT professionals oppose giving governments backdoor access to encrypted information systems, and 59% feel that privacy is being compromised in an …