, SecurityFocus 2003-11-06
Software developers on Wednesday detected and thwarted a hacker's scheme to submerge a slick backdoor in the next version of the Linux kernel, but security experts say the abortive caper proves that extremely subtle source code tampering is more than just the stuff of paranoid speculation.
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Thwarted Linux backdoor hints at smarter hacks
2003-11-09
Anonymous (4 replies)
Anonymous (4 replies)
Thwarted Linux backdoor hints at smarter hacks
2003-11-11
Cid Skid the Former Script K1d (3 replies)
Cid Skid the Former Script K1d (3 replies)
A majority of systems out there are that not, and we'll see more of those as companies start to swap away from M$ for money reasons.
Whoever tried that was not gunning for the top-administered sites out there, but for those one step below, securitywise.
Blind guess: Corporate Espionage on serious lvl.
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