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Wanted, Dead or Alive...
« on: Nov 5^th, 2003, 10:58am »

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Microsoft will today announce two $250,000 rewards for information leading to the arrest of the authors behind the infamous Sobig and Blaster worms.

The rewards will be announced in a joint press conference with the FBI, the US Secret Service, Microsoft and Interpol scheduled for 10:00 EST (15:00 GMT) in Washington DC, today.

It's believed to be the first time a bounty has been offered in a computer crime case, but rewards for the arrest and conviction of criminals are commonplace in other investigations. Microsoft will put up the money but it will be up to investigators to decide if anyone qualifies for the bounties.

Two people have already been arrested by the FBI for releasing variants of the Blaster worm. One of these virus authors, Jeffrey Lee Parson, was only arrested after a tip-off. It's unclear whether Microsoft's reward would be applied retrospectively.

Senior Microsoft executives have been placing on increasingly strong emphasis on talking up Microsoft's security efforts in recent month, amid concern that the continued tide of security vulnerabilities and viruses affecting Windows will erode Microsoft's bottom line.

CEO Steve Ballmer has even taken to making Wild West analogies, a line of thinking that's now been taken to its natural conclusion with the offer of a bounty against the cyber criminals responsible for creating Blaster and Sobig.

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Re: Wanted, Dead or Alive...
« Reply #1 on: Nov 5^th, 2003, 11:12am »