Backdoor Account Found On Devices Used By White House, US Military (sec-consult.com)

An anonymous reader writes: A hidden backdoor account was discovered embedded in the firmware of devices deployed at the White House and in various US Military strategic centers, more precisely in AMX conference room equipment. The first account was named Black Widow, and after security researchers reported its presence to AMX, the company's employees simply renamed it to Batman thinking nobody will notice. AMX did remove the backdoor after three months. In its firmware's official release notes, AMX claimed that the two accounts were only used for debugging, just like Fortinet claimed that its FortiOS SSH backdoor was used only internally by a management protocol.

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Re: Just What the Government Wants - Backdoors

[Anonymous Coward]

Who monitors the monitors? Do the backdoors have little backdoors in them? Is it backdoors all the way down? Backdoorception?