Most U.S. government agencies have until Feb. 4 to audit their IT infrastructure for the use of backdoored Juniper Networks Netscreen firewalls. The House Oversight & Government Reform Committee has government-wide oversight and investigative responsibilities. Juniper released an emergency patch for ScreenOS, the operating system holding up Netscreen appliances. The company said it had discovered unauthorized code in ScreenOS that opened the door for the decryption of VPN traffic moving through the appliances.
Source: https://threatpost.com/government-agencies-audit-for-juniper-backdoor/116021/