40th anniversary of the computer virus !

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Creeper, the world's first computer virus. From Creeper to Stuxnet, the last four decades saw the number of malware instances boom from 1,300 in 1990, to 50,000 in 2000, to over 200 million in 2010. Besides sheer quantity, viruses, which were originally use...

backhoe.article

backhoe article, by miff 1. what is it? backhoe is a backdoor daemon that copies a rootshell into /tmp periodically, then deletes it. You set the frequency that you want rootshells to appear, and you set the amount of time that they will persist before backhoe deletes them. This gives the user wh...