Virus sender helped FBI bust hackers.

  • Thread starter Thread starter David H. Lipman
  • Start date Start date
D

David H. Lipman

September 18, Associated Press - Virus sender helped FBI bust hackers. Federal
prosecutors credited the man responsible for transmitting the Melissa virus - a
computer bug that did more than $80 million in damage in 1999 - with helping the FBI
bring down several major international hackers. Court documents unsealed Wednesday,
September 17, at the request of The Associated Press show that David Smith began working
with the FBI within weeks of his 1999 arrest, primarily using a fake identity to communicate
with and track hackers from around the world. According to the court document, Smith helped
the FBI bust virus senders abroad and stop viruses in the U.S. The letter says that two
months
after his arrest, Smith gave the FBI the name, home address, e-mail accounts and other
Internet
data for Jan DeWit, the author of the so-called Anna Kournikova virus in the Netherlands.
The
FBI passed the information on to authorities in the Netherlands. DeWit was arrested and
later
sentenced to probation. The federal prosecutor also said that Smith was working with the
FBI to develop an investigative tool that theoretically could help identify an e-mail sender
who was trying to mask his or her identity.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/09/18/fbi.hackers.ap/index.html
 
David Smith began working
with the FBI within weeks of his 1999 arrest
Click to expand...

Yep, that sure will detur others from making and spreading Virii.
Smith gave the FBI the name, home address, e-mail accounts and other
Internet data for Jan DeWit, the author of the so-called Anna Kournikova virus in the Netherlands.
Click to expand...

So they can give him a big paying job also.

Way to go FBI! I need to give up working for a living and start
passing Virii around so I can get me one of those good paying FBI
jobs.
 
Way to go FBI! I need to give up working for a living and start
passing Virii around so I can get me one of those good paying FBI
jobs.
Click to expand...


Heh..."virii"....<shakes head>
 
T.R. said:
Yep, that sure will detur others from making and spreading Virii.


So they can give him a big paying job also.

Way to go FBI! I need to give up working for a living and start
passing Virii around so I can get me one of those good paying FBI
jobs.
Click to expand...

Working with is not equivalent to working for (or getting paid by)
any particular organization *especially* the FBI.
 
Back
Top