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Backdoor program gets backdoored
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-06-11

The author of a free Trojan horse program favored by amateur computer intruders found himself with some explaining to do to the underground last month, after his users discovered he'd slipped a secret backdoor password into his popular malware, potentially allowing him to re-hack compromised hosts.

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Backdoor program gets backdoored 2004-06-18
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As the author stated, it's not that he wants to connect to these infected hosts, he wants to have leverage over the authorities. "If they give me shit, I'll release the master pass" ... as many hosts as there are that are infected with this, that would make a fairly decent sized Distributed Denial o...

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