Oct 8, 2010
Insider Threat:Fannie Mae contractor faces jail
The Unix contractor that planted a malicious script on the server of Fannie Mae when he was fired in 2008 faces a jail term of up to 10 years for computer intrusion, computer intrusion? He had full access and the threat was done while he still had full access I would hardly call that intrusion, but I’m guessing a loop hole that the US can charge him with. I am by no means fighting for his plight just the charges don’t make sense to me that’s all (enough on my thoughts on it). The malicious script was time bombed to run on the 31st January 2009, according to reports it would have taken Fannie Mae weeks to recover had it been successful. This is not the first or that last we have seen, read about or helped fix and just goes to show the biggest threat to any organisation is the insider threat.
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said this should serve as a timely reminder to all companies as to what they should be prepared for. “Implementing a combination of robust user policies and security measures is crucial in order to safeguard their IT networks -and ultimately their business -against such incidents.”
The whole story on Computer Weekly and some more
