Latest security news.
Mac worm author receives death threats, 07/19/07: The beef over news of a worm targeting Macs, and the identity of the researcher who claimed to have created the malware, took an even stranger turn Wednesday as death threats were allegedly posted to his or her blog, which was then reportedly hacked.
Mac worm hacker vanishes from blogosphere, 07/18/07: Just days after claiming to have written a worm that could be used to attack Mac OS X systems, the anonymous blogger known as Infosecsellout has gone quiet.
IBM’s India lab develops disaster management tool, 07/20/07: IBM’s India Research Laboratory has developed the Resiliency Maturity Index (RMI), a framework that quantitatively assesses the ability of an organization to recover from a variety of disasters such as floods, power outages, software glitches, epidemics, and terrorist attacks.
Hackers use Brazilian plane crash to push malware, 07/18/07: Hackers haven’t wasted any time exploiting the airplane crash in Sao Paulo, Brazil that claimed nearly 190 deaths Tuesday, a U.S. security company said Wednesday.
Microsoft reveals its identity management strategy: Microsoft Subnet blogger and security expert, Tyson Kopczynski, discusses the newly revealed Certificate Lifecycle Manager 2007. His conclusion so far, he says, is one of “’pleasant surprise’ with some shortcomings.”
Health experts: E-health records privacy rules needed, 07/18/07: The U.S. needs new medical privacy rules as the country moves toward greater use of IT to store health records, a group of healthcare experts said Wednesday.
