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."
The incident is a cautionary tale for anyone who has ever kept a blog or website and then decided to pull the plug. Schwartau had ditched the Blogspot address for a new URL that was linked to the website of The Security Awareness Company, a business he runs.