Juniper screenOS authentication backdoor - master ssh password posted
I'd like to hear how this was discovered and who's name ended up on git blame line next to that password.<p>I have done a malicious source code injection as part of a network security exercise at the university. That was before git or other sane source control and I basically inserted a semi-obfuscated piece of code in the source repository, which gave our team an advantage in the game (the game was to crack and find a weakness in a protocol, but the whole machine was a target/battlefield). The clever part was first rooting the server via suid vulnerability.<p>I won the contest, but while doing it I thought, yeah, this shit will never work in the real world. And then this story made me remember that. That's pretty crazy.