Great Reporting by Brian Krebs

During the Mike Lynn affair I found Brian Krebs' reporting to be invaluable. Now he has provided an excellent story on the arrest of the Zotob and Mytob worm authors. I recommend you read the story linked from Brian's blog. Highlights include:

"Both of the suspects' nicknames can be found in the original computer programming code for Zotob, according to the FBI and Microsoft...

The author of the original Blaster worm remains at large, and Microsoft has offered a $250,000 bounty for information leading the arrest and conviction of that person...

[E]vidence indicates Ekici paid Essebar to develop the worms, which the two used for financial gain...

[T]he two men are alleged to have forwarded financial information stolen from victims' computers to a credit card fraud ring.

[P]olice who raided Essebar's home found a computer that contained the original programming instructions for the first version of the Zotob worm."

I am glad to see action against a different leg of the risk triad, namely threats. It's no use to only address vulnerabilities if the threats who exploit those vulnerabilities are free to constantly develop innovative new attacks.

Ryan Naraine also wrote a good article called Inside Microsoft's Zotob Situation Room.

Incidentally, Andy Sullivan of Reuters is another great "old media" reporter. He's written about Def Con and other issues.