Creator Of Sasser Worm Faces Computer Sabotage Charges
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German prosecutors say the creator of last May's Sasser worm that disrupted computers around the world has been charged with computer sabotage.
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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 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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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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Security experts have spotted the first attempts to create an Internet worm that propagates using instant messages and exploits a recently disclosed flaw in Microsoft software.
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SecurePoint says the alleged Sasser author was "just an immature boy with mindless intent" who wants to make amends.
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The German teen who created the Sasser worm, has been hired by Securepoint, a computer security firm based in Lueneburg Germany. Eighteen year-old Sven Jaschan was responsible for infecting nearly 18 million
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Prosecutors in Verden, Germany, indicted an 18-year-old student on Wednesday for allegedly creating the Sasser worm that crashed hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide after spreading at lighting speed over the Internet.
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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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InfoWorld - Anti-virus firm Symantec warned today that exploit code is circulating for a known security hole in Computer Associates' BrightStor ARCServe Backup software, which provides data backup and restore for a variety of operating systems including Windows, Netware, Linux, Unix, and Mac.
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A computer worm is attacking some business PCs through a flaw in antivirus software by Symantec Corp., a security company warned Friday.
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German prosecutors indicted an 18-year-old student on suspicion of creating the Sasser computer worm that paralyzed millions of computers around the world last spring.
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In worm's latest version, authors ridicule rival worm Netsky and promise to attack Symantec, McAfee and others.
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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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German student, Sven Jaschan, has been formally charged with computer sabotage, data manipulation and disruption of public systems by German prosecutors.
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THE GERMAN teenager who wrote the Sasser worm is being trained as a security software programmer and given a job. Sven Jaschan, 18, has been taken on by the Securepoint computer outfit in northern Germany.
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The alleged writer of the disruptive Sasser virus has been formally charged by German prosecutors.