FTP Hacking on the Rise

yahoi writes "The disco-era File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is making a comeback, but not in a good way — spammers are now using the old-school file transfer technology to serve up bot malware, and even as a backdoor into some enterprises that neglect to lock down their oft-forgotten FTP servers. Researchers at F-Secure have spotted a new wave of exploits that use FTP — rather than a malicious URL, or an email attachment — to deliver their malware payloads because few gateways scan for FTP attachments these days."

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Re:Big deal..

[daveime]

Yes, because if it did, they'd just be accused of anti-competitive practices ONCE AGAIN, bad old Microsoft, stealing the food from the mouths of poor SSH client developers, naughty naughty. Damned if they do, damned if they don't :-(