:ZDNet Australia: Trojan Horses Plague Open Source
ZDNet Australia: Trojan Horses Plague Open Source Dec 25, 2002, 04 :00 UTC (9 Talkback[s]) (15533 reads) (Other stories by Patrick Gray)
"At least three commonly used open source software packages were altered by black-hat (bad-guy) hackers to contain 'Trojan horse' code this year.
"The three most commonly used packages affected were Sendmail, OpenSSH and tcpdump/libpcap. Others to be modified included BitchX, a chat client, and Fragrouter, a network security tool.
"In all of these cases, the unknown cracker gained entry to the relevant download sites and embedded the back door code in the installation packages..."
