The old saying that there s nothing new under the sun is just as true in the security industry as it is anywhere else. This week saw yet another talk pulled from Black Hat, a major cybersecurity meeting in Washington, a rootkit with digitally signed drivers and some new tactics by spammers. The biggest story of the week turned out to be an all-too-familiar one: researchers having to pull a talk from a security conference because of outside pressure. In somewhat awesome news, however, is the meeting that took place Wednesday in the White House on cybersecurity.
Source: https://threatpost.com/week-security-black-hat-spammers-and-trusted-rootkits-071610/74222/