full-disclosure - Victory day - Sasser surrenders

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From: rainer at ultra-secure.de (Rainer Duffner)
Subject: Victory day - Sasser surrenders

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 L?rrach, 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