, 2004-02-20
If hundreds of thousands of people are still blindly clicking on attachments in their email, is there any hope of mitigating the threat of hundreds of thousands of compromised systems with open backdoors?
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Knock, Knock, Knock
2004-02-20
Anonymous (2 replies)
Anonymous (2 replies)
they don't /care/ about the security of their victim's machines."
When an owned machine is a commodity to be used and traded, sure you care about making sure you retain control over it and it isn't just picked up by the next person doing a port scan. Or worse yet as the case with mydoom.a some "helpful" worm comes along and uninstalls and patches the owned system because you just left the door open.
Dont get me wrong, I dont think he made a case for how port knocking will help viruses spread and with that "dump user" hook I would assume that is what the article would be about. That is more a case about more virulent viruses.
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