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Malicious Life Podcast: Andrew Ginter - A 40-Year-Old Backdoor

Written by Malicious Life Podcast | Aug 1, 2022 3:12:11 PM

Ken Thompson is a legendary computer scientist who also made a seminal contribution to computer security in 1983 when he described a nifty hack that could allow an attacker to plant almost undetectable malicious code inside a C compiler. Surprisingly, it turns out a very similar hack was also used in the SolarWinds attack - check it out...