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Exploiting the firewall beachhead: A history of backdoors into critical infrastructure
IT Security Guru
Firewalls have rarely been a hindrance to breaching a network and siphoning data, according to IT Security Guru. Vectra CSO Günter Ollmann explores the history of the firewall over the last three decades and how vulnerable it is to targeted and persistent attacks by sophisticated adversaries, particularly through the use of backdoors.