A message buried in a new version of the Netsky e-mail worm is claiming responsibility for the Sasser Internet worm, and computer security experts say there is evidence the claim is legitimate.

Four Sasser variants--A, B, C and D--are currently running amok across the Internet in search of an LSASS (Local Security Authority Subsystem Service) buffer overrun vulnerability in Windows 95, 98, ...

A new version of the Sasser Internet worm, Sasser-F, appeared yesterday, despite claims by German authorities to have arrested the sole author of the original Sasser on Friday. Antivirus software ...

This past week computers around the world were attacked and hassled by the Sasser worm, the latest in a series of attacks that have plagued computers in 2004, among them the MyDoom worm and variants ...

A new Internet worm is spreading by exploiting a flaw in the Sasser worm, according to an alert issued Thursday. The new worm, tentatively named Dabber, takes advantage of a vulnerability in an FTP ...

German teenager Sven Jaschan confessed at his trial on Tuesday to creating last year’s Sasser computer worm that crashed hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide after spreading at lightning speed ...

HANOVER, Germany - German police have arrested an 18-year-old man suspected of creating the "Sasser" computer worm, believed to be one of the Internet's most costly outbreaks of sabotage. Spokesman ...

HANOVER, Germany -- A German high-school student has confessed to creating the "Sasser" worm that generated chaos across the globe by infecting hundreds of thousands of computers, authorities said ...

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Because the new worm, dubbed "Sasser," does not require users to click on an e-mail attachment to activate, it spreads more rapidly than most viruses. It was discovered late Friday and spread as ...

A German teenager who authorities say confessed to creating the Sasser worm that snarled tens of thousands of computers last year will face trial in July for computer sabotage -- a charge that carries ...

HANOVER, Germany - A German high-school student has confessed to creating the "Sasser" worm that generated chaos across the globe by infecting hundreds of thousands of computers, authorities said ...