Microsoft to Place Bounty on Virus Writers | Reuters

November 06, 2003

 

Microsoft to Place Bounty on Virus Writers
: "LONDON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. and security organizations are set to offer cash bounties for information on the authors of the crippling MSBlast and Sobig computer bugs, industry sources said on Wednesday.

Technology news service CNET News.com reported late on Tuesday that the software giant would offer $500,000 for information leading to the arrest of the writers of two of the costliest computer bug outbreaks to hit the Internet. "

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