...By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus
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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by Tux » Fri Nov 07, 2003 5:59 pm
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by Void Main » Fri Nov 07, 2003 6:17 pm
Yeah, I read that this morning. Seems like we have some pretty smart people on the wrong side of Linux. Security and automated detection methods are good things. Can never have enough checks in place.
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