MyDoom Spreads as SCO Offers Bounty

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SCO offers bounty for MyDoom creator

SCO offers bounty for MyDoom creator 01/27/2004 09:51 PM
ZDNet Jan 27 2004 11:44PM GMT

SCO Offers $250K Bounty for MyDoom
Author's Arrest

SCO Offers $250K Bounty for MyDoom
Author's Arrest 01/27/2004 09:51 PM

New MyDoom virus spreads quickly

New MyDoom virus spreads quickly 07/26/2004 04:13 PM

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“A new version of the MyDoom computer virus that’s targeted to attack Internet search engines spread so quickly Monday morning that some Web surfers received error messages when attempting to use Google.com.” I wondered what the heck happened! That’s the first time that Google has *ever* failed to work for me, so I was a bit freaked out. I even tried the UK and CA sites, only to find the same failure message. I actually…

SCO issues bounty for MyDoom creator

SCO issues bounty for MyDoom creator 01/27/2004 06:23 PM
The company hopes the $250,000 reward will lead to the person or group responsible for targeting its Web site with a denial-of-service attack scheduled to start Feb. 1.

SCO Issues Bounty for MyDoom Creator

SCO Issues Bounty for MyDoom Creator 01/28/2004 03:26 AM
The controversial SCO Group has offered $250,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or group responsible for creating the MyDoom virus. The company also said Tuesday that it is working with U.S. Secret Service and FBI to identify the author of the virus. Also known as Novarg and Mimail.R, MyDoom spread quickly across the Internet Monday, traveling as an e-mail attachment and infecting PCs whose users opened the file. The program instructs infected PCs to send data to SCO's Web server from Feb. 1 to Feb. 12, essentially flooding the Web site and making it inaccessible.

MyDoom variant spreads, knocks out
Google

MyDoom variant spreads, knocks out
Google 07/27/2004 12:32 PM
Out-Law.com Jul 27 2004 5:20PM GMT

MyDoom Worm Spreads Rapidly, Targets SCO
Web Site

MyDoom Worm Spreads Rapidly, Targets SCO
Web Site 01/27/2004 10:57 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 28 2004 3:17AM GMT

SCO puts $250,000 bounty on head of
MyDoom virus writer

SCO puts $250,000 bounty on head of
MyDoom virus writer 01/28/2004 11:21 AM
Computer Shopper Jan 28 2004 4:01PM GMT

MyDoom Worm Spreads Rapidly, Targets SCO
Web Site (Reuters)

MyDoom Worm Spreads Rapidly, Targets SCO
Web Site (Reuters) 01/27/2004 07:30 PM
Reuters - MyDoom, the latest worm to infect computers over the Internet, has become the fastest-spreading attack since last summer's twin attacks by the Blaster worm and SoBig virus, computer security experts said on Tuesday.

Mydoom Internet virus spreads rapidly
via e-mails, file-sharing (AFP)

Mydoom Internet virus spreads rapidly
via e-mails, file-sharing (AFP) 01/27/2004 10:23 AM
AFP - A new Internet virus, dubbed Mydoom, is rapidly infecting computers around the world through e-mail attachments and the popular Kazaa file-sharing service, Finnish Internet security experts said.

FTC Offers Bounty to Name Spammers

FTC Offers Bounty to Name Spammers 09/19/2004 12:39 AM

The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced, in a public report, that a system of monetary rewards would help improve the enforcement of the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2002 (CAN-SPAM Act.) That Act, which became effective on January 1, 2004, required the FTC to conduct a study and provide a report to Congress on a CAN-SPAM "bounty system." While the fact that bounties may be offered to those who help authorities in nabbing spammers doesn't unusual, what is very much out of the ordinary is the projected bounty amounts necessary to make them effective.

The FTC reports three hurdles exist in enforcing the CAN-SPAM Act: 1) identifying and locating the spammer, 2) developing sufficient evidence to prove the spammer is legally responsible for sending the spam, and 3) obtaining the source of funding for the bounties. The report states that those with the information most helpful to authorities are whistleblowers and insiders: those who have had personal or business contact with the spammers, themselves. Because of the real possibility of retaliation, the monetary awards encourage the whistleblowers to come forward. The FTC thinks that awards of about $100,000, upward to $250,000, are reasonable, with funding for the bounty program to come from federal taxes.

Dave's Opinion
I wish I knew a spammer; for a quarter of a million, I could by RV my kids are clamoring for and go on the road for a few months. Why do we need an incentive to do the right thing. Turning in details of bona fide spammers is just a good thing to do. Why should we expect to be bribed by the government?

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Microsoft offers $500,000 virus bounty

Microsoft offers $500,000 virus bounty 11/05/2003 12:04 PM
CNN Nov 5 2003 10:23AM ET

Brief: Mozilla offers bounty for bugs

Brief: Mozilla offers bounty for bugs 08/03/2004 05:47 PM
The Mozilla Foundation's bounty program will reward uses who identify and report security vulnerabilities in the open-source project's software.

Microsoft offers bounty on hackers

Microsoft offers bounty on hackers 11/05/2003 01:23 PM
MSNBC Nov 5 2003 12:01PM ET

Mozilla offers bounty for bugs

Mozilla offers bounty for bugs 08/04/2004 07:52 AM

Microsoft offers virus bounty

Microsoft offers virus bounty 11/05/2003 02:29 PM
CNN Nov 5 2003 1:09PM ET

Microsoft Offers A Bounty On Virus
Writers

Microsoft Offers A Bounty On Virus
Writers 11/05/2003 07:32 AM

Microsoft Offers $500,000 Bounty for
Virus Writers

Microsoft Offers $500,000 Bounty for
Virus Writers 11/05/2003 12:04 PM
Reuters Nov 5 2003 10:26AM ET

Microsoft Offers Bounty on Virus Writers

Microsoft Offers Bounty on Virus Writers 11/05/2003 10:33 PM

Microsoft offers $500,000 bounty for
virus writers

Microsoft offers $500,000 bounty for
virus writers 11/05/2003 03:36 PM
Irish Times Nov 5 2003 3:20PM ET

Microsoft offers bounty for arrest,
conviction of cybercriminals

Microsoft offers bounty for arrest,
conviction of cybercriminals 11/06/2003 08:51 AM
Seattle Times Nov 6 2003 7:57AM ET

Microsoft Offers Bounty on Blaster,
Sobig Authors

Microsoft Offers Bounty on Blaster,
Sobig Authors 11/05/2003 03:36 PM
Techfocus Nov 5 2003 3:21PM ET

Mozilla offers US$500 bounty reward for
security flaws

Mozilla offers US$500 bounty reward for
security flaws 08/02/2004 10:17 PM
The Mozilla Foundation today announced that in conjunction with Linspire and Mark Shuttleworth, US$500 will be awarded to anyone who reports a serious security flaw in the browser.

Internet news site offers bounty for
attackers

Internet news site offers bounty for
attackers 02/05/2005 10:11 PM
A German news site has offered a bounty of €10,000 (about $12,000 US) to anyone who provides information leading to the capture of the perpetrator(s) of a distributed denial of service attack against the site. The Age is reporting today that Heise Online, one of the biggest German publishers online, is seeking information about the machines that actively took part in the attacks on February 1 and February 2. According to the Internet Storm Center, Heise said the attacks targeted port 80 (on which a webserver normally runs), first hitting 193.99.144.71 and later 193.99.144.85. It said the sender addresses were spoofed and, in some cases, addresses reserved for private networks were used. Another similar attack targeted the Heise mailserver (193.99.145.50) on port 25 (the standard port for SMTP services) during the same timeframe. Heise said the logs of routers may show accumulations of packets which were 40 bytes long.

New MyDoom offers 'how to' details

New MyDoom offers 'how to' details 09/16/2004 10:45 AM
"It's like they wanted to help us, which is weird," says one security expert of the latest bizarre twist in the worm's development.

SCO offers $250.000 reward for the
capture of the MyDoom creator

SCO offers $250.000 reward for the
capture of the MyDoom creator 01/27/2004 07:35 PM

SCO offers $250,000 reward for arrest of
Mydoom author

SCO offers $250,000 reward for arrest of
Mydoom author 01/28/2004 07:18 AM
Computer Weekly Jan 28 2004 11:33AM GMT

SCO offers $250,000 reward for arrest of
Mydoom worm author

SCO offers $250,000 reward for arrest of
Mydoom worm author 01/28/2004 12:07 AM
The company, now embroiled in legal action over intellectual property rights related to its version of Unix, is offering up to $250,000 for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for creating the Mydoom virus.

SCO Offers Cash Reward to Find MyDoom
Author

SCO Offers Cash Reward to Find MyDoom
Author 01/27/2004 08:43 PM
Facing denial-of-service attacks, SCO on Tuesday offered a quarter of a million dollars for MyDoom's author. The company said the attack had already begun.

And so the darkness spreads

And so the darkness spreads 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
Freedom of press in Canada? Not for much longer it seems. What affect will this have on journalism in the land of the beaver?

iTunes Spreads via RSS?

iTunes Spreads via RSS? 01/22/2004 09:14 AM

iTunes Music Store RSS Generator

"I learned from Bill Bumgarner that the iTunes Music Store now has RSS feeds.I'll withhold comment on...." [More Like This WebLog]

This is the kind of thing I've been waiting for from Apple. They've got a good community built up around iTunes, but they've done a poor job of connecting and exposing it. I'll have to play around with this to see what it really means, but it would be great if I could find iTunes users with similar tastes in music and then subscribe to their feeds.

On a side note, here's yet another reason for full RSS feeds. I can't get to the More Like This site right now, which means I can't read the rest of the post OR get to the link. Incredibly frustrating.

Bounty Hunting

Bounty Hunting 12/04/2003 10:40 PM

Via Jeremy Hylton, Mark Shuttleworth (super-rich geek and space tourist) is offering $100,000 worth of bounties in 2004 to developers willing to help out with a number of Open Source projects, most of which are to be developed in Python. A comparison can be made here with Mitch Kapor, another geek-done-well who funds open source development through his sponsorship of the Open Source Applications Foundation.

Personally I think this is a great way of funding open source development, although a counter-argument is that this kind of reward could encourage the wrong kind of attitude within the open source community with programmers dedicating their time to paid projects at the expense of others. I don't see this happening - people work on open source projects for the love of doing so and to scratch an itch. If you have the money to spend and want to offer it up as a bounty for someone to further develop a product you like then more power to you! I would certainly consider doing so if some freak incident left me rolling in cash (very unlikely to happen considering my complete disinterest in nursing my finances).

Bounty Posted

Bounty Posted 09/12/2004 04:34 PM
Bob Wyman: PubSub.com is willing to offer a $5,000 bounty to whoever builds the "best" full implementation as an open source Apache module by Jan 1, 2005. It seems that some of the smaller but more aggressive feed consumers have the most to benefit from bandwidth reduction measures than even the mega colossal feed producers do.  Uncompressed, undelta'ed, full text feeds may be becoming the barrier to entry to the next Bloglines, Feedster, PubSub or Technorati.

Camcorder bounty

Camcorder bounty 06/21/2004 10:13 PM
USA Today Jun 22 2004 2:47AM GMT

THE BOUNTY EXPERIENCE

THE BOUNTY EXPERIENCE 05/07/2004 01:26 PM
First release

Jedi Bounty

Jedi Bounty 12/21/2003 10:51 AM
GameSpy.com has posted up an interview with Haden Blackman and Dan Rubenfeld of LucasArts regarding Jedi Knights finally appearing in Star Wars Galaxies: "Not only are Jedi players happy with the system and the powers they are receiving, but other players are just excited about the opportunity to interact with (or hunt down) Jedi." Check it out.

Track Your Bounty

Track Your Bounty 04/11/2005 08:09 PM
With 72 Star Wars M&M wrappers and 48 from Skittles, folks are going to need a mighty detailed checklist to keep track of which ones they have. In order to help you out on this task, there are two really nice official PDF checklists available at both respective websites. Here's the M&M's checklist, and here's one for Skittles!

Bounty for web 'outlaws'

Bounty for web 'outlaws' 11/11/2003 02:24 AM
iafrica.com Nov 11 2003 1:03AM ET

How much will the Bounty be for Spammers

How much will the Bounty be for Spammers 05/23/2004 07:52 AM
Back when America had a true wild wild west their where bounty posters for murder's, bank robbers etc. Well the...
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