A federal judge on Friday sentenced a 19-year-old Minnesota man to 18 months in prison for unleashing a variant of the MSBlast worm.
The teenager from Minnesota who admitted writing the Blaster (or MSBlast) virus will be sentenced this week. He is likely to face jail time and could be forced to pay Microsoft US$600,000.
Federal law enforcement officials confirmed that they have arrested a suspect in the MSBlast worm attack that compromised hundreds of thousands of computers earlier this month.
Jeffrey Lee Parson pleaded guilty last week to unleashing part of the MSBlast worm attack that wreaked havoc on the Internet a year ago. He got off easy.
The first Internet worm appeared 16 years ago and online security has never been the same, say security professionals.
Teenager sentenced to 18 months for writing a MSBlast worm got his just deserts, according to a Web poll. What's your take?
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