Microsoft: Bounty hunter: Considering they swallow $10 million in bad press for every Blaster or Sobig, this is quite a deal for them.
“As the first part of the program, Microsoft (MSFT: Research, Estimates) announced two $250,000 rewards, a total of $500,000, for information that leads to the arrest of the writers of two nasty computer worms — the Blaster worm and SoBig.F e-mail virus — that crippled many PCs running on the Microsoft Windows operating system this summer. Microsoft did not announce specific plans for the remaining $4.5 million in the reward program.”
We're just getting hammered by Sobig this morning. It got into a mailing list used by one of the organizations we belong to and we're getting them at the rate of one every five seconds or so. My Bayesian Outlook Filter is dumping most of them, but one guy here…
Users Blast Microsoft Over Worm Response: Bill's not making any friends in the security community...again. "Widespread problems with the Blaster patch, issues with the Microsoft-supplied workaround, and a general dissatisfaction with the way the vendor handles updates have led administrators and security experts to lay much of the blame for the…