CNN had previously reported that the company likes to boast that it is selling its products to the aforementioned clients, which are not small time fish by any means. However, looks like all of that boasting came to bite the company back as a recent blog post published by the company itself stated that the following: This is what will be referred to as a backdoor, and the NSA are being blamed for it. What happens is that uninvited guests can enter through this backdoor and view any kind of information from the shadows, meaning that whosoever managed to get past this backdoor might have learned about the biggest and darkest secrets of the United States government. At this time, we have not received any reports of these vulnerabilities being exploited; however, we strongly recommend that customers update their systems and apply the patched releases with the highest priority. On behalf of the entire Juniper Security Response Team, please know that we take this matter very seriously and are making every effort to address these issues. More information and guidance on applying this update to systems can be found in the Juniper Security Advisories (JSAs) available on our Security Incident Response website at https://advisory.juniper.net.” However, according to Jupiter, the company claims that they have managed to patch the backdoor, but at the same time, it is recommending its clients to update their software to stay secure. If we get to know some of the government’s most darkest secrets, it obviously means that someone got through the backdoor quite easily.
