Virus Writer, Dumber than Dirt

It turns out that Jeffrey Lee Parson, the author of one of the variants of Blaster that was running around a few weeks ago, is dumber than dirt. You see, he modified Blaster to keep a back door open into sites that it attacked so that he could spy on victims, rip off their financial records, etc. The helpful virus told him which machines he could access ...

By sending that info back to his web site.

Named for his Online Handle.

And registered in his real name.

With his home address.

That it took the authorities this long to track him down makes them look as intelligent as ... well ... this knuckle-headed 18-year-old kid was.
Here's the story. And also see my earlier entry on some of these viruses.