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Thwarted Linux backdoor hints at smarter hacks
Kevin Poulsen, 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 2003-11-11
Cid Skid the Former Script K1d
All of the comments listed here are quite rediculous. First off the backdoor was a local privledge escalation vulnerability so if a server is already compromized it could have led to root on such server. Most production web servers/schools/the majority of computers on the net. arnt going to be much ...

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