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VIRTUALISATION Trust your vendor? Not really: report
VIRTUALISATION Trust your vendor? Not really: report | Trust your vendor? Not really: report |
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| by Peter Dinham | |
| Wednesday, 24 June 2009 | |
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Ovum’s strongly worded warning to buyers of ICT equipment and services follows what the advisory firm says is its discovery of undocumented privileged administrator accounts in new network routers belonging to two telecoms service providers. Graham Titterington, information security principal analyst at Ovum, claims this raises serious concern about the motives of the people or organisations who created them, and he says, these ‘back doors’ could be used for both “active and passive attacks on the networks,” and they call into question the reliability of the vendor and its products. “This is not the first time that we have seen attempts to hack into enterprise and carrier networks by infiltrating network routers.” “At the time of the Athens Olympic Games, rogue software in four mobile switching centres illegally intercepted calls by Greek politicians, including the Prime Minister, for a year. After the discovery of the software, both the network operator and the equipment vendor were fined several million euros. “More recently, the US government detected an attack on IT systems in the Pentagon in 2007 in which 1,500 computers were found to have been compromised.” CONTINUED page 2 |
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