Security consultant's blog found pushing crudware

Vikingod · Jul 4, 2007, 04:49 PM

Source: The Reg
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A prominent IT security consultant has issued a mea culpa after learning a blog he set up on Blogspot and later abandoned was being used to push crudware.

"If I'm supposed to know what I'm doing, what about the 299 million people out there who don't know better?" said Winn Schwartau, an expert in information warfare and computer security education, when asked why his old security blog, SecurityAwareness, was trying to trick visitors into installing crudware called Malware Alarm. "I'd rather cop to it and say I got nailed. We all screw up."

Jul 4, 2007, 04:49 PM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,187 Rep Power: 109 System Specs	Security consultant's blog found pushing crudware Source: The Reg ____________ A prominent IT security consultant has issued a mea culpa after learning a blog he set up on Blogspot and later abandoned was being used to push crudware. "If I'm supposed to know what I'm doing, what about the 299 million people out there who don't know better?" said Winn Schwartau, an expert in information warfare and computer security education, when asked why his old security blog, SecurityAwareness, was trying to trick visitors into installing crudware called Malware Alarm. "I'd rather cop to it and say I got nailed. We all screw up." __________________ *How You Can Help DriverHeaven By Using Digg*