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Storm worm gains strength
Storm worm gains strength
Posted Aug 31, 2007 15:13 UTC (Fri) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)In reply to: Storm worm gains strength by giraffedata
Parent article: Storm worm gains strength
It does if you want to be able to get onto the system later. Most of the time hackers are looking for multiple ways to get back onto a system.. and while leaving backdoors is one method.. another is user passwords.. and user passwords are a lot harder to deal with in environments that do not have centralized login management.
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