This really should come as no surprise, but every day there's a new thing that grabs my attention. The feds have seized over 400 counterfeit Cisco routers worth in the neighborhood of $76 million. I don't how much your firm allocates to competitive intelligence but the Chinese have a slightly larger budget. The FBi believes the routers were being used to penetrate both private and gpublic sector networks. These routers, as you might imagine, would certainly have vulnerabilities and a backdoor these agents could then use to access the networks which were targeted.
Who in government would purchase such routers? According to the article, "Among the purchasers of the fake equipment were the U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center, U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center, U.S. Air Base at Spangdahelm, Germany, the Bonneville Power Administration, General Services Administration, and the defense contractor Raytheon, which makes key missile and weapons systems." Pretty big fish.....
