[plug] New Hackers Scheme

[Nicky]

 Software developers on Wednesday detected and thwarted a hacker's 
scheme to submerge a slick backdoor in the next version of the Linux 
kernel, but security experts say the abortive caper proves that 
extremely subtle source code tampering is more than just the stuff of 
paranoid speculation.

The backdoor was a two-line addition to a development copy of the Linux 
kernel's source code, carefully crafted to look like a harmless 
error-checking feature added to the wait4() system call -- a function 
that's available to any program running on the computer, and which, 
roughly, tells the operating system to pause execution of that program 
until another program has finished its work.

for more info: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/7388

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