13:46 Unixprogrammer fannie mae put on 41 months for setting a logical bomb | |
| Programmer R. Makvala (Rajendrasinh Babubhai Makwana, an Indian citizen) last week sentenced to 41 months in prison for setting "a logical bomb" on computer servers Fannie Mae. From 2006 to 2008 he worked as an admin under the contract in a data center in Maryland. As a UNIX-programmer, it serves a network of about 5000 the company's servers, and in October of 2008, was fired. Lead Engineer, Fannie Mae later discovered in one of the standard programs, malicious code, which should have been executed on Jan. 31, 2009 and destroy all information on all the company's servers, including data about finances, securities and mortgage loans. I was Makvala Rutaceae access to all major systems, including backups. The malicious code was discovered, as they say, by accident: The above specials proskrollit decided before the end of a working script and found at the end of several new lines. It should be noted that Fannie Mae - the largest mortgage agencies it funds over 20% of mortgages in the U.S.. It is hard to imagine what would happen to the market, the stock market and mortgage payments of millions of citizens, if the script Makvala worked. To gather evidence about the involvement in this case the programmer could with his laptop and log analysis servers. Given the potential damage his sentence appears to be extremely lenient. If you think about it, "the stability of the global economy» (© umputun) is in the hands of a small number of relatively low-paid technicians. They are not millionaires, drink liquor, and could come not slept. A little more detail about the "logic bomb" Makvala "here. According to the FBI, had even destroyed Makvala backups, recovery of information would still be possible. It would take a week, during which the rest of the activities of Fannie Mae could be completely stopped. | |
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