Neowin News Feed for: Author

Do you know who you write like?

Paul Ferson — Sat, 05 May 2012 21:49:03 +0000

We take a look at I Write Like: a site dedicated to helping you identify who your writing style most resembles. We also take some of Neowin's authors to the site to see what it makes of their works. Read more...

Author apologizes but fails to fix Panda worm

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:00:03 +0000

The first man to be arrested in China for virus-writing goes by the name of Li Jun, a 25 year-old man from Wuhan, who was arrested last month for allegedly selling copies of Panda. In... Read more...

DivX Author 1.0.1.144

Razvan Serea — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:32:05 +0000

DivX Author is the world's first full-featured DivX authoring program that puts you in complete control of your DivX content creation. With easy to use wizards and formatting templates, DivX Author lets you manage every... Read more...

Accused Sasser Worm Author Confesses in Court

Tue, 05 Jul 2005 16:29:13 +0000

Sven Jaschan, a 19 year old man on trial for authoring the Sasser Worm, has reportedly confessed to writing the malicious code which caused extensive damage to business and personal data all over the world,... Read more...

Bagle author creates new outbreak

Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:18:08 +0000

Kaspersky Lab, a leading security content management has detected a number of variants of Email-Worm.Win32.Bagle. These new Bagles are new variants of the same malware, but packed differently. One thing they all have in... Read more...

CherryOS Not BS, Author Says

Mon, 18 Oct 2004 20:18:25 +0000

Despite being widely accused of code theft, fraud and other chicanery, the author of the controversial CherryOS Mac emulator is sticking to his guns: It's all on the up and up, says programmer Arben Kryeziu.... Read more...

Sasser Worm Author Hired By Computer Security Firm

Sun, 19 Sep 2004 13:19:35 +0000

Eighteen-year-old Sven Jaschan, the teen accused of creating the Sasser worm that infected millions of computers around the world, has been taken on by the Securepoint computer firm based in Lueneburg, northern Germany. There, he... Read more...

PearPC - PowerPC Emulator Author Dies

Tom Warren — Sun, 04 Jul 2004 22:42:57 +0000

On a blog for the popular Mac emulation software (PearPC) co-author Sebastian Biallas has written of Stefan Weyergraf's death late yesterday evening. A tragic end to a young developer who proved that Mac emulation software... Read more...

Sasser author also had a hand in Half Life 2 Code theft?

Mon, 17 May 2004 19:40:23 +0000

Thanks LOC; Seems the German police really did pluck a major player from the scene... "Last week the German police arrested the creator of the Sasser worm. It received less coverage, but nearly... Read more...

Mydoom author sorry for his sins...

Tue, 03 Feb 2004 14:25:08 +0000

A variant of the virus has a cryptic message in which the author appears to apologize for creating the infection. The MyDoom variant that joined the original virus in wreaking havoc on the Internet last... Read more...

L.A. crime author Robert Crais sues Activision

Marcel Klum — Sun, 19 Oct 2003 08:43:39 +0000

Activision saw its drive to publish True Crime: The Streets of LA hit a pothole today as crime author Robert Crais reportedly announced that he is taking legal action to stop the game's November 4... Read more...

HP Merger Report Author Lied About Degree-ISS

Sat, 28 Sep 2002 13:19:58 +0000

The author of an influential report that helped win narrow stockholder support for Hewlett-Packard Co.'s $18.7 billion merger with Compaq Computer has resigned after admitting lying about graduating from law school, his ex-employer said on... Read more...