Sunday, September 19, 2004

Sasser author hired by a German Security Company ...

Sven Jaschan, author of the Sasser and Netsky series of worms has a job at a SECURITY company now! He is working for SecurePoint http://www.securepoint.de/ which is developing security appliances (with AV protection filters from Trend Micro, AntiVir & Sophos). I'm sure most people have serious doubts about a security company hiring a virus writer - and for a reason. No doubt Securepoint will have to explain their decision over and over again. In my opinion I strongly suspect he will either stop working for that company or at least one of those AV developers will pull their support from the company's product development very shortly...
All ethical rules forbids AV companies to hire such people. This is 'THE' reason why I always explained to everyone in the past that there is a LARGE difference between a real 'Security' company and a real 'AV' company...