Security firm hires teenage Sasser virus writer
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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 his virus-writing antics, could be about to enter gainful employment with German firewall company Securepoint
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A virus infection points up the dangers of making it all too easy for visitors to get onto the company network, Mathias Thurman finds.
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$133K salary awaits Fujacks fiend A Chinese virus writer sent to jail for four years earlier this week has being offered a well-paying job by one of his victims.â¦
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A company started on the whim of two longtime friends has been snapped up by the world's largest security software company.
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Eighteen-year-old Sven Jaschan was indicted yesterday for allegedly creating the Sasser worm that crashed hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide after spreading over the Internet.
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The self-confessed author of the infamous Sasser worm has been charged with computer sabotage. Sven Jaschan, 18, was arrested in the village of Waffensen near Rotenburg, in northern Germany, in connection
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A young German man believed to be responsible for writing 70 per cent of all computer viruses received in the first half of this year has been given a job in IT security.
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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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Let the hacking begin Think you have a gift for writing compact code that replicates using one of the web's most vexing classes of security vulnerabilities? Then Security researcher RSnake (aka Robert Hansen) would like to hear from you. He has set up a contest to see who can write a self-propagating cross-site scripting (XSS) worm using the fewest number of characters.â¦
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Netsky-P, an email computer worm  allegedly written by a German teenager, was the hardest-hitting  virus of 2004, disrupting tens of thousands of businesses and  homes worldwide, Web security firm Sophos says.
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com October 20, 2004, 1:37 PM PT. Cyber threats, chiefly viruses like NetSky and Sasser, make security an ongoing concern as it holds steady over software infrastructure as the third top priority.
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A software developer whose program was accidentally labeled a threat is considering action against the antivirus company.
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Cheeky Trojan drifts onto the net The general dumbing down of the virus creation process along with attempts by for-profit hackers to tie up the resources of security firms mean that anti-virus sofware vendors are beginning to need three alphabetical letters for some Trojan families.â¦
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Security experts warn that virus writers could be preparing to create havoc using a bug in the way that Windows handles images.
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Experts at a UK anti-virus firm have discovered a job application buried in lines of code for two new computer worm viruses. The message, which could only be read by anti-virus professionals, said: &quot;We searching 4 work in AV (anti-virus) industry.
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The firm&#39;s E-mail Security Intelligence report, which covers the first half of 2004, highlights the worrying trend of virus writers linking up with spammers; together they are creating a more refined threat to e-mail security.
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Security software maker updates antivirus engine to plug hole that lets virus writers manipulate compressed files and avoid detection.