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Microsoft will announce today that it will offer 2 $250.000 bounties for information that leads to the capture of the person/s responsible for the release of the MS Blaster worm and the SoBig virus.
This is the first time that a company has offered money as a means to capture cyber criminals.
It will be announced today at 10 AM EST on a joint press conference with the FBI, US Secret Service and Interpol.

Read on at ZDNet.

digitalwanderer Junior Member Posts: 3 Joined: 2004-02-22

#49227 Posted on: 11/05/2003 03:56 PM This plan will work I have a feeling.

El_Coyote Senior Member Posts: 555 Joined: 2002-12-18

#49228 Posted on: 11/05/2003 04:28 PM yea its very good money. hmm... *wonders what the other newsposters are doing* lol i cant run this site by myself :P

digitalwanderer Junior Member Posts: 3 Joined: 2004-02-22

#49229 Posted on: 11/05/2003 04:32 PM I dunno, it sure SEEMS like you can. Seriously, you're doing a great job Coyote...just keep it up. Everyone has their on/off days, you're just always on.

Esthero Unregistered

#49230 Posted on: 11/05/2003 04:37 PM 'Microsoft To Offer Bounty On Hackers' How typically American, no European would come up with such an idea. Yes ladies and gentlemen, the spirit of the Wild West is still much alive in the US of A.

DJZaagmans Unregistered

#49232 Posted on: 11/05/2003 06:09 PM I wonder if the hackers themselves will actually consider what is more worth: A few years in prison or $250,000..

Trik Junior Member Posts: 3 Joined: 2003-02-13

#49233 Posted on: 11/05/2003 06:34 PM But I turned ya'll in. Also turned in everyone in at a few other sites. I'm using the: "If you throw enough darts your bound to hit something" approach to collecting the rewards.

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