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Microsoft to reward informants after Sasser conviction
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-07-08

Microsoft plans to split the $250,000 reward for the information leading to the Sasser author between two tipsters, after a German court convicted and sentenced the creator of the Sasser worm and Netsky viruses on Friday.

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Microsoft to reward informants after Sasser conviction 2005-07-11
Anonymous
Never forget that the industry has its part on this one.

While setting free a worm is clearly an act of vandalism, software makers do take it too easy on security. Still. And anti-virus makers keep selling old solutions based (more or less) on databases of known attacks which have to be kept up-t...

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