GCIS CYBER-SECURITY BRIEFING: Computer users facing new backdoor threat

 

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: World Net Daily

28February2011 10:00amEST

GCIS CYBER-SECURITY UPDATE: Data encryption is a method of protecting information from unauthorized use, and will make a cell phone call sound like static and turn an e-mail into gibberish

But according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, sources have reported that two software companies have partnered with defense contractor General Dynamics to work on a project code-named "Task B" that has as its goal the mission of slipping a backdoor onto a laptop without the owner's knowledge.

The team ultimately found four methods of entering a computer's information system and while few computers have all four entry points, almost all have at least two, allowing code to be slipped into the computer without the user's knowledge and ultimately spread to entire networks from that single machine. (read full report)

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