Cisco, Juniper, Huawei devices on NSA’s hacked list

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The U.S. National Security Agency has compromised multiple makes of switches and routers manufactured by market leaders Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks and Huawei, according to documents leaked to Der Speigel magazine.

The NSA's crack hacking unit, Tailored Access Operations, routinely refers to a 50-page list of hardware and software products for which the NSA has tools to gain unauthorised and covert access when looking to tap a target. These include industry standard switches and routers and the firmware of most major makes of hard drives.

Among the most recent NSA revelations:

    The NSA has, among other feats, compromised the Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) software trusted by business executives and government officials for the secure transmission of email over mobile networks.
    The NSA's toolbox includes a device that mimics a mobile phone tower for the tapping of mobile calls and data.
    Most of the malware used by the NSA targets the BIOS of a device such that it runs as soon as the machine is turned on.
    The NSA can intercept Windows crash reports sent by a user's machine to Microsoft.
    The NSA is able to intercept physical computing devices ordered for home delivery by its targets, installing its malware prior to the computers being shipped to the target's door.
    The NSA has targeted in-flight WiFi as a means of further interception.
    The NSA paid RSA Security a $10 million fee to install its software into RSA's security products.

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/368526,cisco-juniper-huawei-devices-on-nsa8217s-hacked-list.aspx

All the time we were being told by Alphabet Boys that we should watch the Chinese, it has been them all the time.

This makes a mockery of any sort of 'security', in fact it makes it defunct. If they 'own' the routers and switches, they own your PC.

The fact that a Government Organization can pay a 'trusted' security company to infiltrate it's product, needs to be addressed immediately.