Microsoft Admits Backdoor in IIS

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Mon May 14 12:15:25 PDT 2001


You probably already saw this on Slashdot...
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/entrepreneur.html?s=smallbiz/articles/2001051
4/microsoft_ackno
"Last Thursday, Microsoft admitted its engineers planted a secret password
in its software that could be used to gain illegitimate access to hundreds
of thousands of Internet sites worldwide. Two security experts discovered
the code, which was written during the dispute between Netscape and
Microsoft over their versions of Internet-browser software."



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