Re: London man charged with making virus

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

Forwarded from: Kurt Seifried <listuser () seifried org>

I have never heard of this T0rn virus, does anyone have information on this?

Oh wait, are we talking about the T0rn rootkit?

Even Sophos agrees this is a rootkit and not a virus.
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojt0rnkit.html

What utter junk, unless he actively broke into systems and installed
t0rn on them he is guilty of nothing as far as I can tell (if he is we
better arrest the OpenSSH team, OpenSSL team, the guy who wrote
netcat, team TESO.....).

My "faith" in the regular press to report security related issues has
just been reaffirmed.

Kurt Seifried, kurt () seifried org
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