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:ZDNet Australia: Trojan Horses Plague Open Source
ZDNet Australia: Trojan Horses Plague Open Source
Dec 25, 2002, 04 :00 UTC (9 Talkback[s]) (13867 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..."

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Related Stories:
Australian IT: Open Source Just as Insecure as Windows (Nov 12, 2002)
SecurityFocus: Clues, Vandalism, Litter Sendmail Trojan Trail(Oct 11, 2002)
NewsBytes: 'Happy Hacker' Drops A Bomb On Security Experts(Sep 24, 2001)
Federal Computer Week: Is Linux secure enough? (Sep 19, 2001)


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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
What about *Pavlov's dogs*, dripping ...   *Trojan horses* eh?   
R.L.
Dec 25, 2002, 07:27:29
 
Trojan Horses Plague Open Source ?really ...   plague ?   
Jovial Hamster
Dec 25, 2002, 12:20:49
 
At least three commonly used open source ...   Plague?   
Bruce
Dec 25, 2002, 13:06:08
 
"The motives for the Trojans are unclear ...   How far would they go?   
Abe
Dec 25, 2002, 17:18:38
 
So, they are saying that MD5 checksums ( ...   Signatures   
Bojan Smojver
Dec 26, 2002, 02:30:33
 
Cui pro bono                             ...   Cui pro bono   
R.L.
Dec 26, 2002, 04:06:15
 
though it is not good for the igage of l ...   The Positive side of attacks   
Anindya Kumar Biswas
Dec 26, 2002, 09:22:13
 
This is like saying that M$ is secure by ...   as if   
some dood
Dec 26, 2002, 21:46:50
 
M$ servers on M$ campus for months befor ...   black-hats were going through...   
yuri vil
Dec 27, 2002, 15:05:08
 
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