Blaster-B author sentence 18 months.Jeffrey Lee Jeffrey Lee (born 1971) is the sole member of the Djok clan and the senior custodian of the Koongarra uranium deposit. The land owned by the clan is surrounded by Kakadu National Park. Parson, the teenager from Hopkins, Minnesota Hopkins is a suburban community located west of Minneapolis in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. The city is about four square miles in size and is surrounded by the larger, west suburban communities of Minnetonka, St. Louis Park, and Edina. , who wrote the Blaster-B internet worm (networking, security) Internet Worm - The November 1988 worm perpetrated by Robert T. Morris. The worm was a program which took advantage of bugs in the Sun Unix sendmail program, Vax programs, and other security loopholes to distribute itself to over 6000 computers on the which launched an attack against Microsoft's website has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and 10 months community service by a US District Court. Parson's worm, the court heard, infected 48,000 computers and caused an estimated $l.2 million in damage when it spread in August 2003. The identity of the author of the original Blaster worm, who infected many many more computers than Parson, is still a mystery. In January 2003, Welsh teenage virus writer, Simon Vallor Simon Vallor is a twenty-two year old web designer from North Wales who, in December 2002, pleaded guilty to writing and distributing three computer viruses. On 21 January 2003 he was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court, London to a two year custodial sentence. , was sentenced to two years in jail for distributing a number of viruses he had created. www.sophos.com |
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