Sasser suspect has fans

Sasser suspect has fans
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-05-14

The German teenager fingered as the author of the Sasser and NetSky worms may not be popular among IT professionals, but fans of the accused miscreant have already sprung to his defense and, apparently, opened their wallets.

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Sasser suspect has fans 2004-05-15
Anonymous

pfft. if the kid was stupid enough to release the worm in the wild without thinking hed get caught, he deserves what he gets... theres a bugtraq security mailing list for a reason, he should have tried posting something worthwhile, rather than releasing something inane....

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Sasser suspect has fans 2004-05-15
CarbonUnit420

This is a joke right? Sounds like something one could expect to read about at the onion....

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Sasser suspect has fans 2004-05-16
Anonymous (3 replies)

lol, people that don't have time to keep their computers up to date ?!? it wouldn't have done them a damn good, because Microsoft takes atleast 2 months to address an issue complained about. The real question here is, had the issue been reported to Microsoft before he had released this little peice...

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Sasser suspect has fans 2004-05-17
Anonymous

perhaps research a little before you post, MS released a patch several weeks before the virus, This cretin was just taking advantage of admins that hadn't installed the patch yet. I say hang him high....

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Sasser suspect has fans 2004-05-18
Alcoholic Anonymic

I could be wrong on this; it could just be some M$ FUD I picked up somewhere, but I heard the LSASS patch was actually released and out for a couple weeks. Speculation then pointing to RE'ing the patch to find the exploit. I give him props though, assuming he found a way to exploit the vulnerabili...

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Sasser suspect has fans 2004-05-18
Anonymous

Sasser exploited a vulnerability for which a patch was already available.

Care to try again?

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Sasser suspect has fans 2004-05-17
iB

he didn't discover the vulnerability, he just coded the virus that exploits the vuln.

I blame the people who fail to apply security patches for the money lost... I spent about 6 hours a few weeks back cleaning that damn virus from peoples' machines. If only they'd patched a week earlier, or if...

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Worms and viri cost companies big bucks 2004-05-18
M3

So what if Microsoft had a bug or hole in its OS. The amount of money that businesses have to spend fighting these threats is enormous. If only he wasn't so selfish. He deserves what happens, because he is breaking the law....

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Sasser suspect has fans 2004-05-18
ei01

You Dammn Americans, why not hang hime or fry him in the electric chair !!!

If IT managers were not so GAY the problem would not have propogated to such an extent.

Most of you only have IS jobe because of incidents such as thin.

All I hear is company X lost X amount of bling.

I dont hear...

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Sasser suspect has fans 2004-05-19
Anonymous

It was a wake-up call. It?s not only the job of IT professionals to try to keep the internet free from viruses and worms. Everyone needs to understand what?s going on. As any security person will tell you?.patch, patch, patch. For once, Microsoft had the patch available ahead of time. If you do...

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Sasser suspect has fans 2004-05-19
Anonymous

Looks like his fan club didnt last long. website is closed and paypal dropped their account. I feel sorry for the buggers that actually donated, well actually I dont feel sorry....

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Sasser suspect has fans 2004-05-19
Anonymous

Now (19 May 5:20 PM) the site is closed. They claim they'll refund donations as soon as paypal permits them to use the account.

???...

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Sasser suspect has fans 2004-05-19
Anonymous Dude (1 replies)

Some of you have got to be kidding. Placing blame on Microsoft? The patch existed, blame the administrator foolish enough to not apply it.

Some of you also think it's justified that if you CAN do a thing you are ok... Sorry, no. I CAN, if I choose, do all sorts of illegal/amoral/immoral things. I...

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Sasser suspect has fans 2004-05-20
Anonymous

It is not about patches nor users. If you really want to secure the Internet, then Systems that are not secure enough should not be allowed on the Internet!...

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Sasser suspect has fans 2004-05-19
Anonymous

FYI he reused an exploit, and MS issued a patch before sasser's release..

I think one can still consider his code as an unintentional warning, even if it wasted bandwith and rebooted lots of machines.

At least everybody is patched and companies are firewalling port 445 too.

Some might thank him, ...

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Sasser suspect has fans 2004-05-19
G Man (1 replies)

Think of all the businesses that would

go bust if we didn't have viruses.

I am not pro-virus writing, but bare

in mind, yes, there is ALOT of money involved....

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Sasser suspect has fans 2004-05-19
Anonymous

yes ...

there's a lot of monney involved. As they say in france " a qui profite le crime ?"

:-)

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Sasser suspect has fans 2004-05-19
Anonymous (1 replies)

Just leave him alone. Microsoft is commercial software, which shouldn?t have any vulnerability for the price they want. Why does a business have to continue to pay for Microsoft products (patches and hours of work)? Microsoft should be paying us to run their problem software? We can?t afford to pa...

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Sasser suspect has fans 2004-05-21
Anonymous

Totally agree microsoft should have properly tested and picked this bug up long ago, however microsoft are wallet fat and damn right lazy when it comes to actually fixing issues in their OS. They would much rather push out a new OS with old security flaws in place.... however thats no excuse for ex...

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Who would pay this clown? 2004-05-19
Anonymous(e)

This would have been a good article for 04/01. :|

I can't imagine that somebody with 1/2 a brain would actually give $.01(usd) so this person can have fun before he goes up the river. Let's hope this is just some lame publicity stunt....

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Sasser suspect has fans 2004-05-20
matrix

aaah this boy need money for education, not to have fun to enjoy da final days out of da prison...

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Sasser Support Site closed 2004-05-20
Anonymous

The site is closed and they claim they will refund the money they raised, if they can access thier locked Paypal account....

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Sasser suspect has fans 2004-05-20
Anonymous

the donation site is down - the kid is caught - microsoft issued patch- he exploited unpatched machines - he brought some companies offline - that is a crime - he needs to be punished.

there are many foolish people - those that sent donations, those that didnt patch, and those that suggest hangi...

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Sasser suspect has fans 2004-05-22
Anonymous

What happened was irresponsable at best. Millions of people were inconvenced by this virus. Not to mention the billions of dollars it cost companies in lost productivity, and ISPs having to offer additional support, as well as Microsoft, symantec, and all of the other people that get called for fr...

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Sasser suspect has fans 2004-05-24
Anonymous (1 replies)

"Placing blame on Microsoft? The patch existed, blame the administrator foolish enough to not apply it. "

Hmmm well bulletproof jackets exist. Do we then blame the poor dead bastard who gets shot, for not wearing one ?

Well ok Sasser was nothing more than an invoncenience, but they say t...

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Wake up! 2004-05-25
Somebody out there...

I seems like this forum is filled with comments from people that didn't have the knowledge or was to lazy to patch their system. Let's face it, you wouldn't park your new Benz unlocked in the middle of the Bronx and expect it to be there when you come back an hour later, but you expect your unpatch...

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