Case against author of worm Sasser starts next week

Zdnet Germany reports that the trail against the author of the worm Sasser starts on July 5th at a district court in Germany. When the defendant programmed the worm he was just 17 years old. His worm exploited a security hole in Microsoft Windows XP and 2000. In May 2004 it forced the American Airline Delta Airlines to cancel all its flights of one weekend. It is supposed that Sasser caused a damage of one million euros worldwide.