-=PCTechTalk=- Hackers drop spyware into popular tool

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-965916.html

From CNet news.com:
The main Web site for downloading a popular open-source
network-monitoring tool remained off-line Thursday following
a revelation that rogue hackers had implanted spyware in the
latest version of the software.
Copies of tcpdump, a utility for monitoring data traffic on
a network, and its library of code, called libpcap, had both
been corrupted on the site, said Michael Richardson,
Webmaster for the site and a member of the open-source
project that maintains the tools.

"The server has been taken down until we can be sure we have
found the problem," Richardson said in a phone interview
Thursday.

 However, other sites had already downloaded the software
from the main server and hosted the files on their own
computers, a practice known as mirroring. It's unknown how
many of these other sites have corrupted copies of the code,
Richardson said, although some have already confirmed that
they have found the Trojan horse.


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