Firm justifies job for virus writer
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A German computer security firm has defended its decision to hire the self-confessed author of the Sasser worm.
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A German security firm has hired the teen accused of writing the Sasser and Netsky worms, a move that sends a dangerous message to hackers, anti-virus firms said Monday.
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Security firms are warning about a virus that tries to cash in on interest in David Beckham.
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A year on, and the company's $1 million tip-off program has nabbed just one virus writer. Is it a bust?
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Business software maker's backing of event comes as company faces continued scrutiny over its security practices.
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InfoWorld - According to some industry analysts, as many as 90 percent of all enterprise businesses currently assign oversight of anti-virus technologies to their desktop management teams, rather than ceding the work to security specialists.
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A German teenager accused of creating the Sasser worm that infected millions of computers around the world is being taught to become a security software programmer, the company that hired him said.
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This pilot fish is hired by a non-IT department in a large company to help another guy maintain a departmental Web site -- and it's quickly clear who grasps the scripting language they're using.
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Malware with menaces Virus writers are revisiting the tactic of holding data on compromised machines to ransom with a new strain of so-called "ransom-ware" Trojan.â¦
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THE WRITERS of the MyDoom viruses are encoding job applications into the latest variants of the bug. According to Sophos the plea for work was found when its boffins were stripping the code of the MyDoom-U and MyDoom-V variants.
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Company is readying security software or cell phones and handheld devices.
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Virus writers have created a new Trojan horse capable of helping crooks to break into the accounts of British internet banking customers.
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Industry group will offer a free program to help users find and eliminate illegal files.
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Sven Jaschan, an 18-year-old from Waffensen in Lower Saxony, who is also thought to be behind the Netsky virus and is currently awaiting trial for writing the Sasser worm, could be about to start work with German firewall company Securepoint.
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A German computer security firm has defended its decision to hire the self-confessed teenage author of the Sasser and Netsky worms.
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The companies plan to share security features to help customers protect their networks from worms and viruses.
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New appointee had key role in company's pretexting scandal as an external counsel.