re: PaineWebber SysAdmin Faces Trial For Computer Sabotage

[David Alanis <SDALAN04 () smumn edu>]

So what happens next, was he an ordinary citizen? I love technology, but I dislike to think that my position as a 
Network Engineer or sysadmin may provoc my employer to take me to court to cover financial losses due to administrative 
wrong doings!

David  
On Friday, June 02, 2006  3:11 PM, Fergie wrote:
> Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 20:11:48 GMT
> From: Fergie
> To: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: [funsec] PaineWebber SysAdmin Faces Trial For Computer Sabotage
>
> Via InformationWeek.
>
> [snip]
>
> A former systems administrator for financial giant UBS PaineWebber goes on trial Tuesday for allegedly sabotaging 
> two-thirds of the company's computer network in what prosecutors say was a vengeful attempt to profit from a crashing 
> stock price.
>
> Roger Duronio, 63, of Bogota, N.J., is facing federal charges in front of a U.S. District Court in Newark, in 
> connection to the creation and planting of malicious code on more than 1,000 computers in the company's central 
> office, as well as in approximately 370 branch offices. When the malicious code, or "logic bomb," was triggered on 
> March 4, 2002, it began deleting files and data, taking down many PaineWebber computers across the United States and 
> hindering trading for days in some branch offices and for several weeks in others, according to Assistant U.S. 
> Attorney Mauro Wolfe, lead prosecutor on the case.
>
> The attack, according to the indictment, cost UBS PaineWebber, which was renamed UBS Wealth Management USA in 2003, $3 
> million just to assess and repair the damage. The company didn't submit a list of losses to the government based on 
> business downtime or lost trading opportunities.
>
> Chris Adams, Duronio's defense attorney and a partner at Walder Hayden & Brogan in Roseland, N.J., says the government 
> has the wrong man. Duronio has pleaded not guilty to all charges. He has been free on bail awaiting trial for the past 
> four years. Adams says he's not working in an IT position at this time.
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=188700855
>
> - ferg
>
>
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