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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Another Blaster-boy arrested

Police have arrested "a 24-year-old Romanian man suspected of releasing a new version of the Blaster Internet worm, the second arrest of a copycat virus writer in the past week," reports Reuters. This one was dumb enough to include "a reference to [his] nickname 'Enbiei,' a message written in Romanian that named one of his teachers, and a link to the university Web site, which he intended to be the target of a denial of service attack." Meanwhile the author of the original remains at large. . . .

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