Sasser Busted!

Phlabibit

Mystic Meg

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09 May 04 00:28

Phlabibit

Mystic Meg

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09 May 04 00:28

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&e=3&u=/nm/20040508/tc_nm/tech_internet_worm_arrest_dc

HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) - German police have arrested an 18-year-old man who confessed to creating the Sasser computer worm, believed to be one of the costliest Internet attacks.

Marinkatomb

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09 May 04 00:43

He'll be on $100 billion a year working for a security company before he's 30! 😕

Acolyte

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Loughborough

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09 May 04 00:58

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Unfortunately this is about the only way we have of catching virus-writers, unless they do something really stupid. Of course I can feel smug, by not using Windows or Outlook Express, that I could never have caught Sasser, nor almost any of the other viruses circulating the internet 😏

gambit3

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09 May 04 16:04

Originally posted by marinakatomb
He'll be on $100 billion a year working for a security company before he's 30! 😕

Not if I could be the judge of him and he is guilty.