American companies respond to new NSA hacking claims

[aelius]

Several American tech companies have responded to a report published in Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine detailing how National Security Agency officials exploit vulnerabilities in their hardware and software.

The report, released in tandem with an address by security expert Jacob Appelbaum at Germany’s 30C3 conference, was based on classified NSA documents that were among those presumably disclosed to journalists by former government contractor Edward Snowden.

Among the documents released over the weekend was a “catalog” of spy hardware and software developed by “ANT,” a previously unknown unit at the NSA. The group is tasked with developing spy gadgets for use by agents at the NSA and elsewhere. The gadgets developed by ANT take advantage of previously-unknown vulnerabilities in computer hardware and software manufactured by at least nine American companies: Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Juniper, Apple, Microsoft, Western Digital, Seagate/Maxtor and Oracle.

At the 30C3 Conference, Appelbaum questioned whether or not the American companies named in the documents were complicit in “leaving us vulnerable,” but said it was ultimately important to name the companies because “some of them are victims.

“It’s important to note that we don’t yet understand which is which,” Appelbaum said, “so it’s important to name them so that they have to on record, and so that they can say where they are.”

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[Brenin]

Heck of a response they did.

Interesant cu Oracle si acel "No Comment"

Sunt curios, s-au publicat pe net articole despre testarea acestor stiri din ultima perioada ( post snowden ) ?

Adica la modul, a incercat cineva sa demonstreze ca , da, chiar se pot intercepta X si Y folosind Z and shit ?

Tex, tu banuiesc ca ai vreun router cisco pentru rack-uri. Ceva pareri personale ?

[aelius]

Am folosit cisco din seria 7600 si unele mai mici dupa ele, insa restrictionate la net din acl-uri (pentru evitarea atacurilor in general). Ca routere, prefer Force 10.

Publicase un polonez o chestie foarte interesanta referitoare la BIOS-uri si interceptari/operatii remote. (sa vad daca-l gasesc)

[Brenin]

Se pare ca au doborat domeniu ce publica stirea de mai sus. LOL ?