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Story: Fannie Mae contractor indicted for planting malware

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Posted by: Yellowcave (Monday 2 February 2009, 2:27 PM)

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Surely they were authorised applications but with different parameters?

In which case a whitelist doesn't help much either!
I was led to believe a standard system script was used but with a bit added on at the end which would have been activated three months later.

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