RSSFBI Awards Microsoft for 'Exceptional Service'
By Nate Mook | Published September 25, 2006, 3:34 PM
The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday awarded nine Microsoft employees certificates for "Exceptional Service in the Public Interest," the agency announced. The recognition relates to Microsoft's help in tracking down those responsible for the Mytob/Zotob worm.
The FBI launched an investigation 2005 to discover who was behind the Zotob attacks, which utilized a mass-mail attachment to copy itself into the Windows SYSTEM32 directory. From there, it would launch a process intended to preclude users from accessing certain Web sites, mainly from anti-virus vendors.
Zotob affected over 100 United States companies, the FBI said, most notably hitting CNN while it was on air. At one point, reporters in the network's own Atlanta headquarters were able to capture live images of their systems continually rebooting -- a product of the buggy Zotob code -- without ever leaving the main studio.
Three individuals were arrested for launching the attacks, Farid Essebar and Achraf Bahloul in Morocco and Atilla Ekici in Turkey. 19 year-old Essebar was sentenced to two years in jail earlier this month, with Bahloul receiving a one-year jail sentence. The FBI says charges against Ekici are still pending with Turkish authorities.
"What happened in this case is a textbook example of the cooperation necessary in this new era of globalization to be successful in addressing computer intrusions and other computer-supported criminal operations," said FBI Assistant Director James E. Finch. "In Microsoft, we have an excellent partner and today we acknowledge them in this small way."
Microsoft senior counsel Brad Smith, who was among the nine honored Monday, said, "The result of that collaboration is an excellent example of how the public and private sectors can and should work together to fight cyber crime. Microsoft will continue to support law enforcement worldwide to identify and hold responsible those who engage in cyber crime."
I should read the article but were these the guys that created the vunerablity and then cleverly lured crooks into exploiting it?
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|Is this from the same federal government whose Homeland Defense Dept. warned its citizens to stop using Microsot's Internet Explorer and install another browser? But now, they are essentially rewarded for it?! Go figure.
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|'FBI Awards Microsoft for 'Exceptional Service'
Well that just proves how crap Microsoft are then.
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|no kidding, do the FBI even have computers yet?
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Increasingly we'll see cooperation between police,
computer users, corporations, the software industry,
and special interest associations in tracking down,
capturing, and punishing perpetrators of malware,
pirated software, and file sharing.
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The Computer Rodent
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"Share a file /
Go to Prison in
Turkey !"
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|You should be in politics. I'm sure you could bulls*** any angle.
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|ok but what exactly does file sharing have to do with this story again?
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Joe Shmoe wrote:
"what exactly does
file sharing have
to do with this
story again?"
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For the schmo's in the audience:
The story is about CRIME. Computer crime.
And the War on Crime !
See, you schmo: Software pirates, virus writers,
as well as file sharers, are all ~criminals~.
They must be hunted down like rabid dogs,
carted off to jail without distinction, given
a fair trial, then hung by the gonads from the
flag pole in front of City Hall at noon !
File sharers are no less crooks in need of
punishment than those who disseminate malware.
They are no 'special class' of kiddies just having
fun. File sharers shall be apprehended, flogged,
imprisoned, and then given a chance to prove
their alleged "innocence" in a Court of Law !
All law-abiding computer users unite in bringing
file sharers to justice.
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The Computer Rodent
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|WOW ... your sure sticking your neck out there arnt you !. Give out the award for the most bleedin obvious statement.
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|you really are this insane! so i wont bother to argue. Have a nice day sir!
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