18 Oct 2018

Why morons shouldn’t be writing about security, part 4

Yesterday I read an article on ZDNet called "Researcher finds simple way of backdooring Windows PCs and nobody notices for ten months" and it made my laugh hysterically.

Why? Because it's a bloody nonsense from start to end.

Let's just look at the main claim in the article.

... in cases where a hacker has a foothold on a system --via either malware or by brute-forcing an account with a weak password-- the hacker can give admin permissions to a compromised low-level account, and gain a permanent backdoor with full SYSTEM access on a Windows PC.

What. The. Fuck.
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