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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Victory day - Sasser surrenders

From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>
Date: Sat May 08 2004 - 08:19:16 EDT

Feher Tamas wrote:

>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3695857.stm
>
>Alleged Sasser LSASS worm creator "J. Sven" (probably the same
>teenager who wrote some of the later Netsky variants) was arrested
>by police in the northern german town of Rotenburg.
>
>Rumor says it was the CIA or FBI who tracked him.
>
>

On a related note, the alleged authors of Phatbot have been captured, too.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/47209
(German only, nobody from around the world has picked-up the news
apparently).

"The main suspect is a 21-year old unemployed male".

Curiously, he's also from Germany (near Lörrach, a small town in the
very south-west, near the border to Switzerland, if you must know).

I guess our education-system is not that bad, after all ;-)

Too bad the companies he attacked will not offer him a job, but sue him
for millions...

Rainer

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