Apple has hired a software security expert to head up its growing internal security group. Ivan Krstic, a well-respected innovator who designed the Bitfrost security specification for the OLPC initiative, joined Cupertino this week and will work on core OS security. His hiring comes at a crucial time for a company that ties security to its marketing campaigns despite public knowledge that it s rather trivial to launch exploits against the Mac operating system. The company has hired David Rice, a former National Security Agency analyst and consultant.
Source: https://threatpost.com/inside-olpc-security-story-022609/72376/

