security

Sasser cripples Computex

June 1, 2004 9:03:15.190

Oops:

How's this for irony? The Taiwanese authorities boasted on Saturday that they'd caught a notorious hacker, author of the Peep Trojan program and the Randex series of email worms. In Germany, around the same time, they were celebrating the capture of the author of Sasser and the author of Netsky. So it was painfully ironic that it was the Sasser virus which disabled the Computex show network here in Taipei.

The worst thing is, the appropriate MS patch dates from 2003...

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