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Fannie Mae Worker Indicted For Malicious Script

Posted by Soulskill on from the good-thing-their-engineers-bailed-them-out dept.

dfdashh writes "A former Fannie Mae contractor has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Baltimore, MD for computer intrusion. He attempted to propagate a malicious script throughout the company's 4,000 servers. The DC Examiner has details of the incident: '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 virus was set to execute at 9 a.m. Jan. 31, first disabling Fannie Mae's computer monitoring system and then cutting all access to the company's 4,000 servers, Nye wrote. Anyone trying to log in would receive a message saying "Server Graveyard." From there, the virus would wipe out all Fannie Mae data, replacing it with zeros, Nye wrote. Finally, the virus would shut down the servers.'"

2 of 325 comments (clear)

  1. Public flogging by m0s3m8n · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It's high time for a public flogging.

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    Conservative, mod down for violating /. political norms.
  2. Technically yerself by starglider29a · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A) "...all of the data in a computer ***ARE*** really just a bunch..."
    B) "...just a bunch of ones ***OR*** zeros..."