jan 29th, 2009
read this on good morning silicon valley, haven't heard of this anywhere else.
Fortune favored McAfee's warning with an example fresh from the headlines. In Washington, Rajendrasinh Makwana, who recently lost his contract job with mortgage giant Fannie Mae, was charged this week with planting a dangerous piece of time-bomb code in the company's server software as a parting gesture. The script, designed to cut access to and then wipe the company's servers, was set to go off on Jan. 31, but it was discovered, "only by chance," a few days after Makwana left. According to an FBI statement, "Had this malicious script executed, [Fannie Mae] engineers expect it would have caused millions of dollars of damage and reduced if not shutdown operations at [Fannie Mae] for at least one week. The total damage would include cleaning out and restoring all 4,000 of [Fannie Mae's] servers, restoring and securing the automation of mortgages, and restoring all data that was erased." Makwana is free on $100,000 bail.
3 comments:
I wonder if he let that through via a code repository without any code review of any sort !!
The comments show it all... Racist and against H1B workers.
Also, surprised that the person was identified as 'Indian' and not 'Asian' or 'South Asian' had it been something good by him or something bad done by a Paki.
Its good that it is Indian,,, they should get this when our own people who get some positons in USA even as a contractor they want to rule other innocent Desis... and people who are Permanent Resident Desis think they became the white masters already.. this is for the good. the cheating mentality of our politicians are reflected in this guy.
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