{"id":3463,"date":"2005-07-08T11:20:47","date_gmt":"2005-07-08T11:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/sasser-worm.html"},"modified":"2005-07-08T11:20:47","modified_gmt":"2005-07-08T11:20:47","slug":"sasser-worm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/sasser-worm.html","title":{"rendered":"Sasser Worm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">I read something today that I couldn\u2019t believe. The author of the Sasser worm, has been sentenced to 21 month\u2019s probation. Sven Jaschan is now 19 but was 17 when he wrote the worm.<\/p>\n<p>The worm was <span style=\"color: black;\">blamed for shutting down British Airways flight check-ins, hospitals and government offices in Hong Kong, part of <country-region w:st=\"on\"><place w:st=\"on\">Australia<\/place><\/country-region>&#8216;s rail network, Finnish banks, British Coast Guard stations, and millions of other computers worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>I am all for giving minors a break but this suspended sentence sends a message loud and clear to other kids. Feel free to hack away\u2026 <country-region w:st=\"on\"><place w:st=\"on\">Germany<\/place><\/country-region> wont prosecute you as long as you are under 18.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Microsoft says the virus was part of a growing problem: hackers profiting from Windows vulnerabilities revealed by patches. The virus appeared 18 days after the company posted a patch to fix a flaw, and it attacked computers that hadn&#8217;t downloaded the patch.<\/p>\n<p>I am concerned about the threat of viruses, spyware, phishing and other threats. These are all problems that reduce people\u2019s trust in computing and has negative effects on e-commerce and web usage in general.<\/p>\n<p>We need mandatory jail sentences for people who write programs with malicious intent designed to damage computers. If we don\u2019t, we can expect more hospitals, railroads and airlines to be shut down. <\/p>\n<p>One day there will likely be a worm or virus so bad, it will serve as a global wake up call.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully our politicians will realize the risks sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/LAW\/07\/08\/sasser.suspended\/index.html\">More<\/a> from CNN.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read something today that I couldn\u2019t believe. The author of the Sasser worm, has been sentenced to 21 month\u2019s probation. Sven Jaschan is now 19 but was 17 when he wrote the worm. The worm was blamed for shutting down British Airways flight check-ins, hospitals and government offices in Hong Kong, part of Australia&#8216;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}