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WMF Flaw: Malice Or Incompetence?
News Every security flaw ever found in Windows could have been a backdoor, and we would never have known. The recent security problem regarding the rendering of WMF images was so bizarre that it has to be an intentional backdoor in the operating system...
[January 16, 2006, 8:20]
Sasser's Heirs Spread Slowly
News On the PC, it installs the backdoor and attempts to tweak Windows settings to disable security features such as system restore and automatic updates, but fails to do so, F-Secure said. Once run on a PC, it installs a backdoor for hackers, downloads...
[July 18, 2005, 9:30]
Vista Backdoor Rumours Shut Down
News Windows Vista won't have a backdoor that could be used by police forces to get into encrypted files, Microsoft has stressed. In February, a BBC News story suggested that the government was in discussions with Microsoft over backdoor access to the...
[March 6, 2006, 8:45]
Vista Backdoor Rumours Shut Down
Talkback Why would a backdoor be limited to BitLocker? It's effectively a backdoor, the difference being that everyone knows about it and signed off on the EULA covering it. Besides, what about Windows Update?
[March 6, 2006, 9:06]
Microsoft: Zombies Most Prevalent Windows Threat
News Backdoor Trojans.are a significant and tangible threat to Windows users," Microsoft said in the report. In about 20 percent of the cases when a rootkit was found on a computer, at least one backdoor Trojan was found as well, Microsoft said.
[June 13, 2006, 9:20]
New Back Orifice-like Trojan Horse Found
News BackDoor-G installs three files on a user's system in the Windows and Windows/System directories. First, BackDoor-G.ldr is installed in the Windows folder and is used to load the main Trojan server. Then BackDoor-G.srv, the main Trojan that...
[May 28, 1999, 8:51]
Baffling Hack Attacks On W2K Server
News The attack will leave a modified security policy in its wake on domain controllers, but it will also leave the Backdoor.IRC.Flood IRC client, which makes reentry by the hacker very simple. The attacks themselves have been Trojan attacks, and all of...
[September 23, 2002, 19:42]
Beware Of Bagle's Trojan
News Plus, administrators need to be aware of a backdoor that can be planted by this infection. It's possible that one or more remote sites are responding to this backdoor by installing Trojan.Mitglieder.C on infected systems, because Symantec says that...
[January 26, 2004, 11:05]
How To Stop Yourself Being Bitten By Bagle.az
News In addition, Bagle.az shuts down antivirus and firewall software and opens a backdoor on port 81 plus another, random port to allow remote access inside infected PCs. Bagle.az also attempts to terminate security apps, such as antivirus and firewall...
[September 30, 2004, 10:20]
First Handheld Trojan Emerges
News The program, known alternately as Backdoor.Bardor.A and WinCE.Brador.a, lets an attacker gain full control of the handheld and is the first such "backdoor Trojan" program to emerge for Pocket PCs. However, such backdoor programs are not capable of...
[August 6, 2004, 8:40]
Credit Card Fraud Ring Implicated In Zotob Affair
News Both Mytob and Zotob attack Windows computers and feature backdoor capabilities. Criminals could use this backdoor to install software that spies on users or to install bot programs that create botnets - networks of hijacked PCs that are commonly...
[August 31, 2005, 10:15]
Microsoft 'solves' Hacking Mystery
News The most recent advisory warns that "successful compromises leave a distinctive pattern", including a modified security policy -- if the victim's computer is a domain controller -- and files identified as Backdoor.IRC.Flood.
[September 10, 2002, 8:02]
Causing Offence Costs Microsoft Millions
Talkback This coupled with the fact the NSA *owns* any Windows box by a backdoor, even circumventing common 3rd-party and built-in firewalls (the proof is in network activity monitoring and decoding done on Linux) will make sure Microsoft leaves the staple...
[August 19, 2004, 20:58]
Open Source: Developing Markets And Anti-Americanism
Talkback For example, do you remember the NSA-key in Windows NT which could be interpreted as a backdoor? You can ask every serious IT security expert to learn that it is not paranoid to be afraid of backdoors in closed source systems.
[November 15, 2005, 5:41]
Battle Continues Over True Cost Of Linux
Talkback story=20040324085956154 to be yet another MS backdoor hit: Located in Tampa Bay, Florida, Sunbelt Software is the first and one of the largest providers of "best-of-breed" Windows NT, 2000/2003 utilities, supplying the tools necessary to support a...
[April 8, 2005, 19:02]
New Mass-mailer On The March
News Like other iterations of Mytob, the two latest versions are distributed via mass email campaigns, feature so-called backdoor capabilities, and attack computers running Microsoft's Windows operating system.
[March 30, 2005, 9:15]
Trojan Compromises Email Delivery
News Symantec believe a variation of the Randex worm first discovered in August has inserted a backdoor Trojan named mprox, discovered on 30 September, into a large number of Windows-based systems. Symantec's US-based security team said spammers are...
[October 15, 2003, 10:10]
Inbox Menace - Bugbear
News This worm installs a keystroke-logging Trojan and a backdoor on Windows systems, so it is a dangerous nuisance that needs to be taken seriously. This infection attacks a system through unpatched versions of Internet Explorer 5.01 and IE 5.5...
[October 10, 2002, 13:01]
Xombe Trojan Imitates Microsoft Security Warning
News When executed, it attempts to download a malicious backdoor component from the Web. The email, which appears to have been sent from windowsupdate@microsoft.com, has the subject line "Windows XP Service Pack 1 (Express) - Critical Update" and...
[January 12, 2004, 11:10]
Symantec Upgrades Korgo Worm Warning
News This backdoor functionality could result in a loss of confidential data and may also compromise security settings," said Huger. Symantec announced the presence of the W32.Korgo.F worm in April of this year, which they say attempts to circulate...
[June 3, 2004, 9:55]
