[Cialug] Slight OT: Joomla & Security

[James Jones]

On 05/24/2012 02:17 PM, jrnosee wrote:
> Anyone know how it's possible to modify a file in linux and NOT
> change the modified date/time?  I was thinking that this was
> self-replicating, but I swear I removed it from every page....
>
The touch utility is often used to create a file or set its time of 
modification to the time when touch is run, but one of the possible 
options lets you specify an arbitrary date/time to use. I wouldn't be 
surprised if malware made a point of noting the timestamp of the 
original versions of files it mungs and preserving that timestamp in the 
modified version as part of trying to make things look normal.

     James