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In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Chief Executive of Apple, Tim Cook gives a thumb's up during a tour the Apple Headquarters on December 12, 2024 in London, England. Chris Jackson | Getty Images Apple has triumphed over an effort from the U.K. government to keep details secret of its appeal against an order to create a "backdoor" to iPhone users' data. The U.K.'s Investigatory Powers Tribunal on Monday published a ruling dismissing the government's attempt to
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How NixOS and reproducible builds could have detected the xz backdoor for the benefit of all Published on 2025-03-20 Estimated reading time: 22mn Introduction In March 2024, a backdoor was discovered in xz , a (de)-compression software that is regularly used at the core of Linux distributions to unpack source tarballs of packaged software. The backdoor had been covertly inserted by a malicious maintainer under the pseudonym of Jia Tan over a period of three years. This event deeply stunned t
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Chinese hackers are deploying custom backdoors on Juniper Networks Junos OS MX routers that have reached end-of-life (EoL) and no longer receive security updates. The backdoors are primarily variants of the TinyShell malware, an open-source tool that facilitates data exchange and command execution on Linux systems, and which has been used by multiple threat groups over the years. The attacks were discovered in mid-2024 by Mandiant, who attributed the attacks to a cyberespionage threat actor kn
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The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains an undocumented backdoor that could be leveraged for attacks. The undocumented commands allow spoofing of trusted devices, unauthorized data access, pivoting to other devices on the network, and potentially establishing long-term persistence. This was discovered by Spanish researchers Miguel Tarascó Acuña and Antonio Vázquez Blanco of Tarlogic Security, who presented their
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The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains an undocumented backdoor that could be leveraged for attacks. The undocumented commands allow spoofing of trusted devices, unauthorized data access, pivoting to other devices on the network, and potentially establishing long-term persistence. This was discovered by Spanish researchers Miguel Tarascó Acuña and Antonio Vázquez Blanco of Tarlogic Security, who presented their
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President Trump has chimed in on the UK’s attempt to force Apple to add a global backdoor to iCloud, likening the demand to “something that you hear about with China.” Trump met with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at The White House yesterday for a wide-ranging conversation on world politics, tariffs, free speech, and more. It marked Starmer’s first visit to Washington, D.C., since Trump took office last month. In an interview with British news outlet The Spectator yesterday, Trump was asked a
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