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13th June 2004 Archive

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  • Backdoor program gets backdoored

    Malware author inserts secret password

    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. The program in question is …

    Enterprise Security 13 Jun 2004, 20:59

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