The quiet threat: Cyber spies are already in your systems

[Basil Chupin]

On 29/07/2010 19:46, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 08:29, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>    
>> Something along the lines then of Microsoft which admitted that they had
>> backdoors to Windows or to Zone Alarm owned by the Mossad company Check
>> Point which was caught sending info back "home" to the 2 servers, and
>> not ignoring ECHELON of course?
>>
>>      
> I understood the issue to be that Checkpoint, being Israeli,
> _could_possibly_ contain code that might "call home" with secrets to
> be passed onto the Mossad. I cannot find any reference to there
> actually being such code, or to any incidents happening. Can you
> provide more info?
>
> Thanks.
>    

You would need to check this out for yourself as I did not keep a copy 
of the article(s) dealing with this.

It all started when someone looked to see that his Windows system was 
sending out data; he found that it was ZoneAlarm calling "home" to its 2 
servers; the fellow then provided a quick "fix" for this; with ZoneAlarm 
then admitting that an "oversight" had been programmed into ZA, and that 
this has now been corrected.

As to when this occurred....I cannot remember now....days merge into 
weeks, weeks into months.....

The articles were not main stream though - they were IT media specific 
at that time, like The Inquirer and/or The Register and even possibly 
ZDNet -- I cannot remember, sorry.

BC


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