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RSS sasserMicrosoft puts $250,000 bounty on worm-creator's head
News Symantec said: "W32.Downadup is the first successful worm to target a vulnerability in a remote service since W32.Sasser in 2004, and in doing so it has shown that the internet is still a successful breeding ground for... [16 Feb 2009]
CIO Jury: Viruses still a major security threat
News While the days of the mass-mailer worm like Sasser may be over, the virus and Trojan Horse threats are becoming more intelligent and subtle, according to Ian Auger, head of IT and communications at ITN. [25 Jan 2007]
Warning over 'Storm Worm' email
News The worm is already close to being as large as the bigger ones of 2006, Hypponen said, though it's still smaller than Sasser and Slammer. Malware that's been dubbed the "Storm Worm" is baiting people with timely... [19 Jan 2007]
HP to hack its customers
News We could do as little as pop up a window saying 'this machine is vulnerable to Sasser' but we can escalate the mitigation if necessary to take the system completely offline. HP is to launch a penetration-testing service... [05 Jul 2006]
Yahoo! 'virus writer' claims he just wants a job
News However, it is an approach which has proven successful in the past when Sven Jaschan, who wrote the Sasser virus, landed a job with German security company SecurePoint on the back of his notoriety. silicon.com has been... [16 Jun 2006]
Virus Mitigation Techniques: After the Virus Is Inside - Part 2 - Level 200
White Paper Specific real-world examples of mitigation techniques against Code Red, Nimbda, SQL Slammer, and Sasser will be discussed in this webcast, as well as potential remediation and mitigation techniques that could have been... [16 Jun 2006]
Analysis: What's the next malware threat?
Comment We are seeing less of the big virus outbreaks such as Sasser and Blaster, and so some people believe the situation is getting better, when in fact it is getting worse," says Mikko Hypponen, chief technologist at security... [12 Apr 2006]
Microsoft virus 'bounty hunter' warns of never-ending battle
News Indeed Microsoft's cyber-crime unit has had some notable successes to date, having taken action against 150 spammers, tracked down the Sasser virus author, caught the two people in Morocco alleged to be behind the Zotob... [01 Mar 2006]
Tsunami 'hacker' gets IT security day job
News Last year, German firewall vendor Securepoint was criticised after hiring Sven Jaschan, a teenager who had been charged - and was subsequently convicted - of writing the Sasser worm. When Daniel Cuthbert was convicted... [11 Nov 2005]
Leader: We are all guilty of letting hackers run free
Leader For example, last week the 19-year-old who wrote the Sasser email virus - which caused havoc and huge financial damage to businesses worldwide last year - escaped with a 21-month suspended sentence from a German court. [14 Jul 2005]
Sasser writer free to return to his job
News The German 19-year-old who wrote the Sasser email virus, which caused havoc and huge financial damage to businesses worldwide last year, has escaped serious punishment. Earlier this week, silicon.com heard from one... [08 Jul 2005]
'Name and shame virus writers - even the kids,' says expert
News This week Sasser writer Sven Jaschan is on trial in Germany and while he is being tried as a minor because he was 17-years-old at the time he committed his crimes, his identity has not been protected. [06 Jul 2005]
Sasser virus writer admits guilt in trial
News Sven Jaschan, the German teenager accused of writing the Sasser virus, is standing trial today, a year after he was arrested and admitted to writing the damaging worm which caused havoc for many businesses and... [05 Jul 2005]
Sasser virus writer trial date set
News A German court has set aside three days in July to try the teenager accused of creating the Sasser worm. Authorities have said that Jaschan has confessed to creating and releasing both Sasser and several... [01 Jun 2005]
Virus Top 10: No surprises in 2004
News Sasser, a fast-spreading virus that debuted in April, accounted for 14 percent of virus reports and ranked third on the list. Sven Jaschan, the self-confessed author of the Netsky and Sasser worms, was... [09 Dec 2004]
