Angels of security » worm http://angelsofsecurity.com/blog Musings of an infosec renegade Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:01:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 bountys for virus writers http://angelsofsecurity.com/blog/2009/02/13/bountys-for-virus-writers/ http://angelsofsecurity.com/blog/2009/02/13/bountys-for-virus-writers/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:23:35 +0000 admin http://angelsofsecurity.com/blog/2009/02/13/bountys-for-virus-writers/ The Conficker worm author is the latest to latest to have a bounty placed on his/her head. While I’m not inherently opposed to rewarding people who turn in criminals (it certainly has been standard practice in the non-cyber world for centuries). However, I think that in this case the organization offering the bounty is simply trying to look “tough on crime” after suffering for decades due to their lax security posture.

update On a related topic, when doing some background research on conficker, I stumbled across the following headline:

French navy surrenders to Conficker
 The jokes just sort of write themselves….

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