Backdoors in a sentence

Kaspersky's team was tired of being hacked, then they uncovered backdoors in the hardware of Apple products.

Meanwhile, when the broke in 2013, they revealed evidence of a vast NSA surveillance program, known as “,” that revolved around attempts to insert or maintain backdoors in widely used encrypted communications products and protocols.

Of the newly tracked malware families, the top five categories consisted of backdoors (34%), downloaders (14%), droppers (11%), ransomware (7%) and launchers (5%).

The attack campaign utilised a flaw to inject Linux backdoors into websites to redirect visitors to fake tech support pages, phony lottery winnings, and push notification scams; these were likely part of scams or sold as a service to scammers.

SolarWinds, the company whose Orion IT administration platform has been infamously in 2020 to deploy backdoors on select agencies’ and companies’ systems, has patched five vulnerabilities affecting its Access Rights Manager (ARM) solution.

APT group OceanLotus, for example, deployed new backdoors, targeting multinational automotive manufacturers.

Fxmsp himself noted in his posts that, when installing backdoors, he set a long interval for connections with C2 servers: once every 15 days.

The administration argues that the Chinese government could compel the telecoms company to create backdoors and thus enable it to spy on its western adversaries.

Vodafone and Huawei both confirmed the vulnerabilities were discovered in the Chinese routers, but in a report by Bloomberg that the security lapses amounted to “hidden backdoors” that could be used to spy on millions of people’s internet browsing.

Another way to approach the inflated number is that the FBI has been using it as a central core of the Department of Justice’s obvious push for backdoors.

Anyone ought to be able to see why the Feds are asking for backdoors, and quite frankly it would be surprising if they didn’t.

Cryptocurrencies with backdoors for world government feel more like kryptonite to the ideals of the crypto-anarchist manifesto than a boon to a burgeoning industry.

Domas believes the same backdoors exist on other chipsets.

Not only did Apple explain that it technically didn’t have the ability to unlock the phone since it didn’t store users’ encryption keys, it also refused any suggestion to install backdoors into its devices and services.

Paul-Hus was quoted as saying the Americans believe the Canadian and British approach to test Huawei equipment rather than ban it is inadequate to uncover potential backdoors in the Chinese firm’s gear.

Please also note that the scammers use legitimate software to create these backdoors, then lock down the permissions so you can't remove the software - it requires an administrative command line to do so.

The more we get involved in the little details the less time we get to make the main points, which is that government mandated backdoors are a bad idea.

The movement was a response to establishment efforts (mainly governmental) to create backdoors to consumer technology and spy on the general public for the sake of national security.

This is a visually inventive sequel that mostly succeeds on the world-building front as it introduces new elements like rogue programs, ghosting albino twins, and a hallway full of backdoors in the system (all of which lead to cool fight scenes).

If an organization were to precompute this group, they could derive the keys being exchanged and decrypt traffic without inserting any software backdoors.