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Sasser Suspect Snared By Microsoft Reward
News Microsoft's $5m (£2.81m) fund for rewarding informants for leads on virus attacks has snagged its first success with the arrest of a man in Germany who has confessed to the release of the Sasser worm, the software giant said on Saturday.
[May 10, 2004, 8:30]
Second German Arrest 'unrelated To Sasser'
News Though Microsoft had not announced any reward for information about the person or group that released, and presumably wrote, the Sasser worm, a group of informants approached the software giant's German office on Wednesday and inquired about...
[May 11, 2004, 9:20]
Did FBI Informant Turn To The 'dark Side'? Pt II
News That's a particular problem in any case that involves obsessive-compulsive informants like drug buyers, he said, who seem incapable of keeping promises to stay clean in the face of their overwhelming urges.
[July 13, 2000, 14:10]
Can Microsoft's Virus Bounty Fight Organised Crime?
News We contacted the German police and the informants came forward with a name," Okin said. The informants' behaviour was correctly anticipated by Peter Allor, director of vulnerability research for network protection provider Internet Security Systems...
[May 10, 2004, 17:30]
Sasser's Author Escapes Prison
News The program has offered a total of $1m to informants who help close official investigations into four major viruses and worms, including Sasser, and has another $4m earmarked for future rewards. Microsoft has not disclosed the identity of the...
[July 11, 2005, 9:25]
A Mosaic Of Ottawa's Economic And Workforce Landscape - Report II: Profiling Ottawa's Workforce
White Papers Through a process that involved a survey of over 500 Ottawa residents, interviews with over 60 key informants, and 12 focus groups representing each of the nine major industry sectors of Ottawa's economy, anecdotal data were systematically...
[June 24, 2005, 3:00]
Mob Enforcer
Downloads Pay off cops and knock off informants to rise through the ranks. Mob rule has taken over and Al Capone is fighting for control of the streets. You are Jimmy "Machine Gun" DeMora, Scarface's main enforcer.
[October 23, 2004, 1:11]
Mob Enforcer
Downloads Pay off cops and knock off informants to rise through the ranks. Mob rule has taken over and Al Capone's fighting for control of the streets. You are Jimmy 'Machine Gun' DeMora Scarface's main enforcer.
[July 11, 2004, 14:16]
How Much Is Shared In A Shared Activity?
White Papers Despite the highly collaborative nature of the work, informants reported a complex mix of shared and unshared objects and tasks. Activity-centric collaboration involves shared work, structured in ways that facilitate both private and shared actions.
[March 9, 2007, 0:00]
Government Delays IT Recycling Directive
Talkback I should think a snitch scheme with rewards for informants and big fines for headlining companies could go a long way to raising awarness of this among management. Speaking from my experiance as an IT Projects contractor, IT big names such as Dell...
[March 29, 2005, 18:19]
BSA Offers $1m US 'piracy' Bounty
News However, as Anne Broache of ZDNet.co.uk's sister publication CNET News.com has noted, the BSA has publicly paid only one bounty in the US, totalling $15,500 (£7,689) between three informants. Americans willing to report their employers for using...
[July 4, 2007, 15:56]
Fifth Sasser 'released Before Arrest'
News German authorities arrested an 18-year-old resident of Waffensen, a small town in the Lower Saxony region of Germany, late on Friday, according to Microsoft, which tipped off authorities after informants came forward with details about the...
[May 11, 2004, 8:35]
Netsky Copycat Sparks Search For Source Code
News Mikko Hyppönen, director of antivirus research at F-Secure, told ZDNet UK that although the latest variants seem to have been written by a different person, he has not found any proof that the code is being distributed: "We haven't seen the source...
[March 12, 2004, 11:20]
Mozilla Gives Bug Hunter $2,500
News Microsoft also highlighted its cash-reward scheme for informants who help law enforcement agencies to convict virus writers. The Mozilla Foundation has given $2,500 (£1,328) to a security researcher for discovering vulnerabilities in its free Web...
[March 31, 2005, 13:05]
DefCon: Hacking For Human Rights
News Potential human rights informants "know that governments monitor the Internet, so in many cases they won't send e-mail to report abuse," he said. Human rights activists put out a call to hackers here to help get the word out about their cause...
[July 17, 2001, 9:50]
Sasser Attacks Provide Fodder For New Worm
News Already, the suspected author has been arrested there, based on information leaked to Microsoft by informants interested in reward money. Computers compromised by the Sasser worm may be vulnerable to a scavenging program that exploits a flaw in the...
[May 14, 2004, 9:10]
BSA Offers £10,000 Bounty For Software Pirates
News A hotline has been set up by the BSA for piracy informants and the BSA guarantees anonymity in its investigations. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is offering £10,000 reward for information that helps catch companies guilty of using...
[November 3, 2000, 13:12]
Did FBI Informant Turn To The 'dark Side'?
News Still, many law enforcement officers, say that is no different from the use of informants in the real world. So when the owner of "whitehats.com" was arrested earlier this year, it sent shudders through the secretive security community.
[July 13, 2000, 14:00]
Rewards Shift Nature Of Worm Hunt
News The Sasser computer worm may mark a turning point in law enforcement's ability to catch and prosecute computer virus authors. The reason: enticed by a $250,000 (£137,178) reward, an informant came forward to leak information on the person who wrote...
[June 11, 2004, 11:25]
Roundup: The Summer Of Hacking
News Hackers are going to cost the world over £1tn in 2000, which is over 17 percent of the United States' GNP. They're also having two of their biggest gatherings this summer -- Def Con in Las Vegas and H2K in New York.
[July 13, 2000, 14:26]
