Microsoft and Cybersecurity Superfriends Offer $250k for Conficker Worm Maker
Microsoft is offering a $250,000 bounty for the Conficker worm’s designer. Microsoft isn’t alone in this hunt for the writer of the biggest PC worm in recent history. They’ve got a team of superfriends involved with the hunt: Symantec, F-Secure, VeriSign, Afilias, Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), and the Shadowserver Foundation. The worm itself is dangerous,…