Juniper, Citrix and Fortinet

No, this is not about the famous Donovan song.

Most of this list was compiled by M. Jennings:

NSA Helped British Spies Find Security Holes In Juniper Firewalls [theintercept.com] Quote: "... British spy agency GCHQ, with the knowledge and apparent cooperation of the NSA, acquired the capability to covertly exploit security vulnerabilities in 13 different models of firewalls made by Juniper Networks..."

Secret Code Found in Juniper's Firewalls Shows Risk of Government Backdoors [wired.com] Quote: "This is a very good showcase for why backdoors are really something governments should not have in these types of devices because at some point it will backfire."

New Discovery Around Juniper Backdoor Raises More Questions About the Company [wired.com] Quote: "Juniper added the insecure algorithm to its software long after the more secure one was already in it, raising questions about why the company would have knowingly undermined an already secure system."

Juniper 'fesses up to TWO attacks from 'unauthorised code' [theregister.co.uk]

'Unauthorized code' that decrypts VPNs found in Juniper's ScreenOS [theregister.co.uk] Quote: "And it may have been there since 2008, making this a late contender for FAIL of the year."

How to log into any backdoored Juniper firewall -- hard-coded password published [theregister.co.uk]

Juniper promises to fix ScreenOS cryptography ... eventually [infoworld.com]

Listen up, FBI: Juniper code shows the problem with backdoors [infoworld.com] Quote: "FBI director James Comey should be taking notes: The Juniper debacle shows why security experts are up in arms over government-ordered backdoors."

Another quote from that article:

"Cryptographic backdoors are one of the best ways for attackers to break into systems. '[The backdoors] take care of the hard work, the laying of plumbing and electrical wiring, so attackers can simply walk in and change the drapes,' Green said.

And ditto for Fortinet [arstechnica.com], the Deep Packet Inspection filter company, who also thought it wise to install a SSH server with a hard coded password.

Not to be outdone, Citrix also makes products with the same stupidity and a fixed password of Citrix123.

It is amazing that Fortinet, Citrix, Juniper and its spawn Pulse Secure, are still doing business. The only explanation is that literally nobody cares about security and only pays lip service to it.

GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out...

Herman

Comments

Unlock CRA PDF Forms

Unlock Canada Revenue Agency PDF Forms It appears that there is a relatively new PDF feature to prevent casual copying and saving of a file and that some programs save PDF files with these foolish features active by default. Many forms from the Canada Revenue Agency are locked in this way, which makes it difficult to do one's taxes, since one can fill the form, but cannot save it. One can only print the form. It should be possible to print to a file or export it to a new PDF file, but it is far better to reset the annoying anti-taxpayer flags, since the 'printed' form cannot be edited easily any more and I always manage to make a mistake or three that need to be corrected after review. If there is a Linux (virtual) machine handy, install qpdf and use it to reset the silly flags: $ su - password # dnf update # dnf install qpdf # exit $ qpdf --decrypt lockedfile.pdf unlockedfile.pdf One doesn't need a password to unlock these flags, so the fix is instant. La voila! He...

Parasitic Quadrifilar Helical Antenna

This article was reprinted in OSCAR News, March 2018: http://www.amsat-uk.org If you want to receive Satellite Weather Pictures , then you need a decent antenna, otherwise you will receive more noise than picture. For polar orbit satellites, one needs an antenna with a mushroom shaped radiation pattern . It needs to have strong gain towards the horizon where the satellites are distant, less gain upwards where they are close and as little as possible downwards, which would be wasted and a source of noise. Most satellites are spin stabilized and therefore the antenna also needs circular polarization, otherwise the received signal will flutter as the antennas rotate through nulls. The helical antenna, first proposed by Kraus in 1948, is the natural solution to circular polarized satellite communications. It is a simple twisted wire - there seems to be nothing to it. Various papers have been published on helix antennas, so the operation is pretty well ...

Weather Satellite Turnstile Antennas for the 2 meter Band

NEC2, 2 m band, 146 MHz, Yagi Turnstile Simulation and Build This article describes a Turnstile Antenna for the 2 meter band, 146 MHz amateur satcom, 137 MHz NOAA and Russian Meteor weather satellites. Weather satellite reception is described here . A quadrifilar helical antenna is described here . Engineering, is the art of making what you need, from what you can get. Radiation Pattern of the Three Element Yagi-Uda Antenna Once one combine and cross two Yagis, the pattern becomes distinctly twisted. The right hand polarization actually becomes visible in the radiation pattern plot, which I found really cool. Radiation Pattern of Six Element Turnstile Antenna Only a true RF Geek can appreciate the twisted invisible inner beauty of a herring bone antenna... Six Element Turnstile Antenna Essentially, it is three crosses on a stick. The driven elements are broken in the middle at the drive points. The other el...

Aeronetworks sro - Airborne Linux

Search This Blog