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Date:      Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:55:16 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Ports and ftp.win.tue.nl 
Message-ID:  <199901260655.IAA42865@greenpeace.grondar.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of " Mon, 25 Jan 1999 02:26:43 PST." <199901251026.CAA03222@apollo.backplane.com> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9901250444550.1869-100000@bsd-daemon.net>   <199901251026.CAA03222@apollo.backplane.com> 

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Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     I read a report of this somewhere... NYTimes, I think.  That basically
>     someone had broken into the site and backdoor'd tcp_wrapper.  Presumably
>     they found it pretty quickly.

It was all over Bugtraq.

"They" found that 52-odd people had downloaded the trojanned version, and
were trying to warn them. How many of those passed it on is not known.

Thank <deity> for the ports-mechanisms' MD5 :-)

M
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