On Friday 17 Oct 2003 15:53 pm, Jochem van Dieten wrote:
> > You don't have to be doing something stupid to trigger a trojon.
> What would be a non-stupid way for an admin to trigger a trojan on his
> server?

DNS poisioning when you downloaded the patch file, for instance.
On UNIX boxes, a local attacker could have altered an alias for a common
command to fetch, compile and insert a Nasty kernel module and then waited
for you to run that command.

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