FBI to nab teen Blaster suspect today

The FBI has identified a teenager as the author of a Blaster worm variant, unleashed recently on the Internet, and plans to arrest him today, AP reports.

The 18-year-old, whose name and hometown was not available to the AP reporter, was accused of writing one version of Blaster. A witness reportedly saw the teen testing the infection and called authorities.

Further details are expected today from the FBI and the US attorney`s office in Seattle.

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Nokia, the world`s largest mobile phone maker, and Psion, a British mobile device manufacturer, have started talks with Motorola to buy Motorola`s stake in mobile software consortium Symbian. According to Reuters, talks are expected to end in coming weeks.

If a deal is done, Nokia`s stake in Symbian would rise to 32%, from a current level of around 19%, and Psion`s stake would climb to 31%. Nokia said the deal valued Symbian at $470.7 million.

A series of sustained denial of service attacks, apparently carried out by disgruntled spammers, have claimed their first casualty - a spammer`s blacklisting site, reports CBR Online.

Joe Jared, operator of the Osirusoft open relays blacklist, this week turned off his service after being attacked for over a month. The site reports he is apparently just one target in a concentrated campaign aimed at those who are trying to fight the spam problem.

"Relays.osirusoft.com is dead, and it will stay dead," said Jared. Jared reportedly said in recent months he had taken precautions, such as changing IP addresses, which gave some temporary relief, but that the latest spate of attacks was too much.