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Vsftpd backdoor discovered in source code (The H)

Vsftpd backdoor discovered in source code (The H)

Posted Jul 8, 2011 2:27 UTC (Fri) by anchorsystems (subscriber, #40101)
In reply to: Vsftpd backdoor discovered in source code (The H) by nix
Parent article: Vsftpd backdoor discovered in source code (The H)

It's a really good idea to run a host integrity monitor on servers to detect this sort of change. Something like Osiris can do the trick.


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