Chinese police to release hacker's Panda worm killer

14.02.2007

Occasionally, hackers leave the dark side for work in security firms, but analysts and researchers are almost always suspicious of such a practice. In 2004, for example, German security vendor Securepoint GmbH was criticized for hiring Sven Jaschan, the self-confessed author of the Netsky and Sasser worms. Jaschan, then 19, was given a 21-month suspended sentence in 2005 by a German court.