Backdoor Found In UnrealIRCd Source Archive 174
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timothy
from the channel-is-pwn3d dept.
from the channel-is-pwn3d dept.
l_bratch writes "A malicious backdoor was added to the UnrealIRCd source archive some time around November 2009. It was not noticed for several months, so many IRC servers are likely to be compromised. A Metasploit exploit already exists."
Windows safer than linux (Score:1, Funny)
From TFA "The Windows (SSL and non-ssl) versions are NOT affected."
Cool, you dont get to see this too often when windows version is safer than a linux one!
Re:It's nice that they're honest. (Score:5, Funny)
It could be worse... You could be the guy at Microsoft that was ordered to write this exploit and then insert it into the codebase without getting caught.
Backdoor allows user to execute ANY command (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The remediation advice is wrong (Score:5, Funny)
May I remind you that the Windows binaries are unaffected?
Re:It's nice that they're honest. (Score:2, Funny)
Seriously, that's what you call unchecked paranoia. Nobody is ordering Microsoft grunts to sabotage open source software. They do that in their free time for fun.
Re:It's nice that they're honest. (Score:3, Funny)
You're in the wrong article. The one about autism is a few further down the front page. In this one, you're supposed to have a sense of humour or, if you're American, a sense of humor.
That's it, I'm headed to the autism article to make a joke. Wapner, here I come!
Re:It's nice that they're honest. (Score:1, Funny)
Wow. Why the fuck would you use such a shit operating system that can fail so massively? That kind of shit never happens on OS X or Windows.
You must be some kind of computing masochist.