Re: SF Worker Accused Of Tampering With City's Computer Network

[Rob Thompson <my.security.lists () gmail com>]

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Paul Ferguson wrote:
> Via NBC11.com.
>
> [snip]

The funny part about all of this, at least according to what I read on
The Register this morning...they're still locked out of the network.

It's been approx a week.  lol

While I normally wouldn't find this so funny, I just can't stop thinking:

I wonder if they ever heard of the phrase "Disaster Recovery"???

Priceless...  A whole week and they can't get back in...

> San Francisco prosecutors charged a city worker Monday with illegally
> tampering with the city's computer network, potentially exposing the
> information of both city workers and anyone who does business with the
> city.
>
> Police arrested Terry Childs, 43, a network administrator for San
> Francisco's Department of Telecommunications and Information Services, over
> the weekend, according to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office.
>
> According to District Attorney Kamala Harris, Childs is believed to have
> disrupted the city's FiberWAN network system between June 20 and July 10.
> He was arrested on Sunday at his home in Pittsburg and is being held on $5
> million bail, she said.
>
> At a news conference in San Francisco Monday afternoon, Harris was vague
> about the facts or motive behind the sensitive case, citing an ongoing
> investigation.
>
> Harris said the charges relate to "rules about accessing our computer
> systems and about who has authorized or unauthorized access to those
> systems."
>
> According to Harris, Childs is believed to have temporarily denied services
> to authorized users on the network, and to have set up devices that would
> allow a user to gain unauthorized access to the network.
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://www.nbc11.com/news/16884468/detail.html
>
> - ferg

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