Crime Pays! Microsoft to Reward Sasser Informants
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It turns out that crime does pay, after all. Informants, that is.
Microsoft has announced that they will pay out a promised $250,000 USD reward to two informants who helped lead authorities to Sasser creator Sven Jaschan.
The teenaged Jaschan was tried last week, and received a suspended sentence for having authored the worm which wreaked havoc on hundreds of thousands of computer systems world-wide.
Said Nancy Anderson, Deputy General Counsel for Microsoft, “We’re pleased that the author of the Sasser worm has admitted responsibility for the damage he caused and is being held accountable…
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