A message buried in a new version of the Netsky e-mail worm is claiming responsibility for the Sasser Internet worm, and computer security experts say there is evidence the claim is legitimate.

Four Sasser variants--A, B, C and D--are currently running amok across the Internet in search of an LSASS (Local Security Authority Subsystem Service) buffer overrun vulnerability in Windows 95, 98, ...

Unlike worms that appear from the Internet cloud in the contents of an e-mail, the Sasser family--most notably W32.Sasser.B.worm--exploits a recently announced buffer overrun vulnerability in popular ...

Organizations that evaded last week’s Sasser worm infestation credited vigilant patching processes and preventative measures such as installing server-based behavior-blocking software and worm ...

Microsoft Corp. issued an unusual weekend security warning Saturday that a worm has been unleashed on the Internet taking advantage of a security hole announced publicly last month (see story).

In at least seven cases, disruptions at large companies have been blamed on machines infected by Sasser. The virus can infect PCs running Windows 2000 and XP that are not patched against the loophole ...

You don’t have to do anything special to catch the Sasser worm; a vulnerable computer connected to the Internet is enough. Now there’s a worm that eats the Sasser worm, and you don’t have to do ...

HANOVER, Germany - German police have arrested an 18-year-old man suspected of creating the "Sasser" computer worm, believed to be one of the Internet's most costly outbreaks of sabotage. Spokesman ...

— -- A German teenager who confessed to creating the Sasser computer worm has been found guilty of three counts of computer sabotage and four counts of data manipulation, and given a suspended ...

Not 100% sure this belongs here, but here goes. I need to remove Sasser from my computer. I did not realise I had it until my computer began to BSOD seconds before the login prompt. Being that I dont ...

A new Internet worm is spreading by exploiting a flaw in the Sasser worm, according to an alert issued Thursday. The new worm, tentatively named Dabber, takes advantage of a vulnerability in an FTP ...