{"id":15656,"date":"2015-12-25T09:58:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T14:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15656"},"modified":"2015-12-26T09:09:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T14:09:07","slug":"nsa-helped-british-spies-find-security-holes-in-juniper-firewalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15656","title":{"rendered":"NSA Helped British Spies Find Security Holes in Juniper Firewalls"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NSA HELPED BRITISH SPIES FIND SECURITY HOLES IN JUNIPER FIREWALLS<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A TOP-SECRET\u00a0document<\/a>\u00a0dated February 2011 reveals that British spy agency GCHQ, with the knowledge and apparent cooperation of the NSA, acquired the capability to covertly exploit security vulnerabilities in 13 different models of firewalls made by Juniper Networks, a leading provider\u00a0of networking and Internet security gear.<\/p>\n

The six-page document, titled \u201cAssessment of Intelligence Opportunity \u2013 Juniper,\u201d raises questions about\u00a0whether the intelligence agencies were responsible for or culpable in the creation of security holes\u00a0disclosed<\/a>\u00a0by Juniper last week. While it does not establish a certain link between GCHQ, NSA, and the Juniper hacks, it does make clear that, like the unidentified parties behind those hacks, the agencies found ways to penetrate the \u201cNetScreen\u201d line of security products, which help companies create online firewalls and virtual private networks, or VPNs. It further indicates that, also like the hackers, GCHQ\u2019s capabilities clustered around an operating system called \u201cScreenOS,\u201d which powers only a subset of products sold by Juniper, including the NetScreen line. Juniper\u2019s other products, which include high-volume Internet routers, run a different operating system called JUNOS.<\/p>\n

The possibility of links between the security holes and the intelligence agencies is particularly important given an ongoing debate in the U.S. and the U.K. over whether governments should have backdoors allowing access to encrypted data. Cryptographers and security researchers have raised the possibility that one of the newly discovered Juniper vulnerabilities stemmed from an encryption backdoor engineered by the NSA and co-opted by someone else. Meanwhile, U.S. officials are\u00a0reviewing<\/a>\u00a0how the Juniper hacks could affect their own networks, putting them in the awkward position of scrambling to\u00a0shore up<\/a>\u00a0their own encryption even as they criticize the growing use of encryption by others.<\/p>\n

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NSA HELPED BRITISH SPIES FIND SECURITY HOLES IN JUNIPER FIREWALLS A TOP-SECRET\u00a0document\u00a0dated February 2011 reveals that British spy agency GCHQ, with the knowledge and apparent cooperation of the NSA, acquired the capability to covertly exploit security vulnerabilities in 13 different models of firewalls made by Juniper Networks, a leading provider\u00a0of networking and Internet security gear. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11239,1511,5437,4543,1404,11238,577,765],"class_list":["post-15656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-firewalls","tag-gchq","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-intercept","tag-internet-security","tag-juniper","tag-nsa","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15657,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15656\/revisions\/15657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}