Sasser
RSS Sasser5 years ago: Melissa variant upgraded to high-risk category
News In more recent times we have seen the likes of the Love Bug, Klez, MyDoom, Sasser and Blaster. 06.12.99: The Melissa variant, ExploreZip.worm.pak, is hitting corporate America hard and can now be classified as an... [06 Dec 2004]
NT4 users warned over security support
News But those not taking out custom support will only be able to receive patches for critical vulnerabilities for worms on the scale of Sasser and Blaster. Determine what security problems impacted the business, other than... [06 Dec 2004]
Bofra worm feels the need for speed
News This uses the same technology as Sasser or Blaster," said Runald. The worm combines multiple attack techniques in an innovative way: spamming, social engineering, virus infection and Trojans. It has also appeared in... [09 Nov 2004]
Virus suspect trial delayed
News Life is already changing for the teen who stands accused of writing and distributing the Sasser virus, as well as being strongly linked to Netsky. In the first six months of the year Netsky and Sasser... [26 Oct 2004]
Microsoft patches 22 security flaws
News While one security hole stood out among those 20 - and led to the widespread Sasser worm - there are no standouts in the current gaggle of goofs. Oliver Friedrichs, senior director of Symantec's security response centre,... [13 Oct 2004]
Virus Top 10: Zafi-B dominates
News It's never really made the headlines in the same way that Netsky and Sasser worms have done this year - and that might be part of the reason why people have been more laid back about protecting against it. [30 Sep 2004]
Security firm justifies virus writer job
News The German security firm that has offered Sasser virus author Sven Jaschan has hit back at critics. The 18-year-old Jaschan was hired earlier this month by Securepoint as a full-time trainee programmer but many security... [24 Sep 2004]
Leader: Hackers should be hired - sometimes
Leader The hiring of accused Sasser virus writer Sven Jaschan by a German IT security vendor has once again reopened the debate about whether convicted or known hackers and virus writers can ever be trusted to work in... [23 Sep 2004]
CIO Jury: Would you hire a hacker?
News A German security company has divided opinion in the IT industry this week by offering Sven Jaschan, who is being charged with the creation of the Sasser virus, a job. Not surprisingly the antivirus companies immediately... [22 Sep 2004]
Firms divided over Sasser virus writer's IT job offer
News The 18-year-old virus writer facing criminal charges for creating the Sasser worm has been offered a job by a German IT security firm, a move that divided the opinion of security industry experts at Gartner's IT Security... [22 Sep 2004]
Security firm hires teenage Sasser virus writer
News The teenage virus writer arrested for writing the Sasser worm has been offered a job - at a security firm. Sven Jaschan, an 18-year-old from Waffensen in Lower Saxony, who is also thought to be behind the Netsky virus... [20 Sep 2004]
Will 'bounty' scheme stop spammers?
News The closest reference point for the scheme is probably the $250,000 bounty which Microsoft put on the heads of the virus writers behind MyDoom and Sasser. When Sven Jaschan was arrested for writing... [17 Sep 2004]
Symantec supports Chinese web censorship
News The report said that the worst viruses were the Sasser and Netsky worms. Symantec's Norton AntiVirus product has blacklisted a piece of software which enables users in China to access websites which are blocked by order... [16 Sep 2004]
Microsoft's Sasser bounty hangs on conviction
News Sven Jaschan, the alleged author of the Sasser worm and several variants of the Netsky virus, was charged this week by German police, but the informant who led authorities to the suspect will have to wait for a promised... [13 Sep 2004]
Sasser teen charged as 143 victims come forward
News Sven Jaschan, the 18-year-old said to be behind two of the internet's most widespread viruses - Sasser and Netsky - is to be charged by the German police. Despite recent fears that virus writers and spammers were teaming... [09 Sep 2004]
