Watch your back (door)
Disguised as vendor updates or planted in OEM hardware, backdoors are booming, and they’re the gift that keeps on giving…to the hacker.
02 September 2019
In a world polluted by incidents of nation-state attacks and cyber espionage, backdoor attacks are often viewed as exaggerated, ‘cloak and dagger’ tools. They aren’t. In reality, they’re soaring in popularity and present a very real threat to public and private sector organisations across the globe.
Rik Ferguson, vice president of security research at Trend Micro, says at the highest level, a backdoor refers to a route into a target that bypasses normal authentication or encryption mechanisms.
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