In at least seven cases, disruptions at large companies have been blamed on machines infected by Sasser. The virus can infect PCs running Windows 2000 and XP that are not patched against the loophole ...

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 ...

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 ...

VERDEN, Germany — The teenager who created the "Sasser" computer worm that created havoc as it raced around the world last year was convicted Friday on charges including computer sabotage and given a ...

Up to six million computers worldwide may have been infected by the Sasser worm first detected last week, including those of some large multinational corporations, Finnish internet security firm ...

The teenager who created the "Sasser" computer worm that created havoc around the world last year was convicted Friday in Germany on charges including computer sabotage and given a suspended sentence, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- The Sasser computer worm struck as many as a half-million computers by Tuesday as new variants spread quickly. Antivirus software-maker McAfee said that by early Tuesday, ...

In their closing remarks today, the state prosecutor and the defense attorney in the trial of the Sasser computer worm author disagreed on what should happen to the 19-year-old German teenager if he ...

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 ...

BERLIN — The informant who tipped Microsoft to the identity of the "Sasser" computer worm's creator last month is among five people under investigation as possible accomplices, prosecutors said ...

NEW YORK -- A pesky computer worm snarled hundreds of thousands of machines worldwide Monday in the latest virus-like outbreak to take advantage of a known flaw with the Windows operating system.

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