Congress to federal agencies: You have two weeks to tally your backdoored Juniper kit

Congress plans to question about two dozen federal agencies on whether they were using backdoored Juniper network security appliances.

In December, Juniper Networks said it had discovered unauthorized code added to ScreenOS, the operating system that runs on its NetScreen network firewalls. The rogue code, which remained undetected for two years or more, could have allowed remote attackers to gain administrative access to vulnerable devices or to decrypt VPN connections.

The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform wants to determine the impact that this issue had on government organizations and how those organizations responded to the incident.

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