The quiet threat: Cyber spies are already in your systems

[Dotan Cohen]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 09:02, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> You would need to check this out for yourself as I did not keep a copy
> of the article(s) dealing with this.
>

I did google it, I found nothing but speculation that the possibility
exists. That possibility exists in all software, ZA and Checkpoint
were singled out because it is a non-US company that would have had
software running on NSA computers.


> 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.
>

I could name a dozen Windows programs that send data home without
informing the user. For instance: Windows!


> 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.
>

TI and El Reg? that's about as reliable as The Onion. ZDNet more so,
but even trolling /. I could not find info on this, I think that you
can safely lay it to rest!

That said, ZA in garbage. I had it running on a virtual machine that
was not connected to the internet, but every now and then it would
"block an intrusion". Right.


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Dotan Cohen

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