Mac Worm Author Gets Death Threats

StonyandCher write(s) to spread news about the strange story of the reported Apple OS X worm, which is growing stranger by the day. The blog of the researcher who claimed to have created the malware reportedly received death threats. The blog was then hijacked, according to the researcher, who calls him/herself InfoSec Sellout. InfoSec blamed David Maynor for hacking the blog. For his part, Maynor apparently unmasked himself as "LMH" and InfoSec as Jon Ramsey. The post to the Fuzzing mailing list has not been independently confirmed.
Update: 07/19 13:48 GMT by KD : David Maynor wrote in and denies that he is LMH.

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fuzzing] The Truth

[djupedal]

[fuzzing] The truth Lance M. Havok:
>br> "Since the cover is becoming more difficult to maintain, I've decided to stop this. It simply can't stand anymore and I can't let this harm my company and its customers.
I am David Maynor. I made up the LMH identity for bashing Apple and appearing on the media while I was preparing for launching Errata Security with Robert. Since my credibility was severely damaged after the wireless driver exploit, I needed a sock puppet. The idea of LMH and the Month of Apple Bugs came a while after I resigned from SecureWorks."

Re:fuzzing] The Truth

[shawnce]

[blockquote]bca2fee517ff50ddd01bb7d6ed9c3043
The above MD5 hash of a text file should serve as a proof in case
someone attempts to deny the statements of this message.[/blockquote]

Anyone care to tell me how expects the above to prove the email message you quoted is legit? If it is only a text file that David Maynor has how are we supposed to know what it is? If it is a text file that we can get at then how is the MD5 hash of it useful?

David Maynor != LMH

[OriginalArlen]

David Maynor just posted this to Full Disclosure; the post claiming to be from him and asserting that he's LMH was spoofed. Who'd a-thunk it, mail spoofing on a security list... DUH!

Re:Should have picked a softer target

[jdray]

showing MACs blowing up and Steve Jobs carrying them

It's early yet, and the coffee hasn't kicked in, so I'm feeling a bit snippy. Please grant pardon for this:
When posting among confirmed geeks, you should understand the difference between "Mac" as a shortened colloquialism for "Macintosh," a brand of computer system, and "MAC," an acronym for "Media Access Controller," a component of a network controller, as in "my MAC address is 0F:BA:29:C6:D5:18." If you want to refer to a Macintosh as MAC, go post over at PCWeek.