A 19-year-old Minneapolis man pleaded guilty Wednesday to unleashing part of the MSBlast worm attack that wreaked havoc on the Internet last summer.
Jeffrey Lee Parson admitted creating the “MSBlast.B” variant, also called “teekids,” by modifying the original version of the worm and adding a backdoor that granted him control of infected computers, federal prosecutors said. “Sending out a computer worm may be viewed as a harmless prank,” John McKay, a U.S. attorney, said in a statement. “But the damage to individual computer users is very real, and the penalties are also very real.”
Source: ZDNet
Articles RSS