[Nottingham] Rootkit/break in

David Ginger nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Mon Aug 11 14:26:01 2003


<snip>
>   Recently a customers machine was cracked and had a (fairly clumsy)
> rootkit installed on it.
</snip>

Excuse my ignorance, but in rough layman terms how did the cracker break in ?