[pchelpers] News:Claims of a Mac Worm Incite Blogging Brawl

By Sharon Gaudin
InformationWeek Thu Jul 19, 3:13 PM ET

Researchers, Apple lovers, and Apple doubters are caught up in an online
verbal free-for-all that's akin to a cyber version of the Hatfields and
McCoys.

The online hubbub is all over an anonymous blogger claiming to have
built proof-of-concept code for a vulnerability in Apple's Mac OS X.
Security researchers and Apple fans have been closely following blog
entries on the Infosecsellout blog by an anonymous poster. The blogger,
who claims he's a researcher, says he's being paid to create a Mac worm
using the vulnerability, but he has no plans to release the code into
the wild. He doesn't say who is paying for his research.

More here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070720/tc_cmp/201002341;_ylt=AiwnvBBz0nrbGO_LQZdftBAjtBAF
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