At least three commonly used open source software packages were altered by black-hat (bad-guy) hackers to contain "Trojan horse" code this year.
The download site for two very common Linux based utilities, tcpdump.org, was hacked into on the 11th of this month, and the software available for download was modified to contain Trojan Horse code.
A new tool for manipulating packets of data that travel over the Internet could allow attackers to camouflage malicious programs just enough to bypass many intrusion-detection systems and firewalls.
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