Fired IT manager hacks into CEO's presentation, replaces it with porn !!!

[INDRANIL]

After so many boring spam, virus news's here goes the funny one . 52-year-old Walter Powell used to be an IT manager at Baltimore Substance Abuse System Inc, until he was fired in 2009. Clearly someone who believed that revenge should be served red hot, Powell used his computer knowledge to hack into his former employer's systems from his home and install keylogging software to steal passwords.

On one occasion, Powell took remote control of his former CEO's PowerPoint presentation to the board of directors, and projected pornographic images on the 64 inch TV.

According to media reports, Judge M. Brooke Murdock gave Powell a two year suspended sentence, and ordered him to 100 hours of community service and three years' probation.

Cases like this underline the importance of having a proper process in place when staff leave your company. That means changing passwords, and removing access rights when an employee's time at your firm comes to an end.

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[JayCub]

Thank you Indra and the point you made about proper process in place when staff leave is only common sense and derserve to be hacked for been so lack lustre although i don't agree with hacking to be honest, unless it's in the traditional sense.

[jj1two3]

Good story INDRANIL, this was a funny story.

[Bearcat]

Too bad the story doesn't tell us why Powell got fired. Maybe his former employer got what he deserved.

[Ceyfer √]

Too bad the story doesn't tell us why Powell got fired. Maybe his former employer got what he deserved.

This reminds me of the logic bomb that was planted by a fallen employee on his former company...same story, different type of damage.

[Bearcat]

This reminds me of the logic bomb that was planted by a fallen employee on his former company...same story, different type of damage.

By "logic bomb" are you talking about an explosive device? There have been a fair number of cases in the US the past few years, where fired employees went in with firearms and shot up their former places of employment. Sometimes it seems to me like the thin veneer of civilization is growing thinner all the time, at least in my country that is.

[Neo]

i wish i was there in presentation

[CoolD]

I had read the same story on one blog 3-4 years back may be the employee had get idea from internet to do this funny stuff

[JayCub]

By "logic bomb" are you talking about an explosive device? There have been a fair number of cases in the US the past few years, where fired employees went in with firearms and shot up their former places of employment. Sometimes it seems to me like the thin veneer of civilization is growing thinner all the time, at least in my country that is.

I thought when i read this that there was a program in place before the employee left to either destroy data or cause some similar damage, shocking to think that an employee would walk into a firm with a fire-arm, I understand your point on this one Bear as it's a sad world. not sure but i think Ceyfer is referring to data loss.

[Ceyfer √]

By "logic bomb" are you talking about an explosive device?

Not the literal high explosive device Bearcat but rather its I.T counterpart, made not by Trinitrotoluene but by Ones and Zeroes.

Some recorded rare logic bomb incidents via Wikipedia:

In June 1992 Michael Lauffenburger, an employee of defense contractor General Dynamics,  was arrested for inserting a logic bomb that would delete vital rocket  project data. It was alleged that his plan was to return as a highly  paid consultant to fix the problem once it triggered. Another employee  of the company stumbled upon the bomb before it was triggered.  Lauffenburger was charged with computer tampering and attempted fraud  and faced potential fines of $500,000 and jail time,but was ultimately fined $5,000.
In February 2000, Tony Xiaotong, indicted before a grand jury, was accused of planting a logic bomb during his employment as a programmer and securities trader at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell.  The bomb, planted in 1996, had a trigger date of July 20, 2000, but was  discovered by other programmers in the company. Removing and cleaning  up after the bomb allegedly took several months.
On October 2, 2003 Yung-Hsun Lin, also known as Andy Lin, changed code on a server at Medco Health Solutions Inc. Fair Lawn, New Jersey  headquarters, where he was employed as a Unix administrator, creating a  logic bomb set to go off on his birthday in 2004. It failed to work due  to a programming error, so Lin corrected the error and reset it to go  off on his next birthday, but it was discovered and disabled by a Medco  computer systems administrator a few months before the trigger date. Lin  pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 months in jail in a federal  prison in addition to $81,200 in restitution. The charges held a maximum  sentence of 10 years and a fine of US$250,000.
In June 2006 Roger Duronio, a disgruntled system administrator for UBS,  was charged with using a logic bomb to damage the company's computer  network, and with securities fraud for his failed plan to drive down the  company's stock with activation of the logic bomb. Duronio was later convicted and sentenced to 8 years and 1 month in prison, as well as a $3.1 million restitution to UBS.
On 29 October, 2008 a logic bomb was discovered at American mortgage giant Fannie Mae.  The bomb was allegedly planted by Rajendrasinh Babubhai Makwana, an  Indian citizen and IT contractor who worked in Fannie Mae's Urbana, Maryland  facility. The bomb was set to activate on 31 January, 2009 and could  have wiped all of Fannie Mae's 4000 servers. Makwana had been terminated  around 1:00pm on 24 October, 2008 and managed to plant the bomb before  his network access was revoked. Makwana was indicted in a Maryland court  on 27 January, 2009 for unauthorized computer access.
In October 2009, Douglas Duchak was terminated from his job as data  analyst at the TSA’s Colorado Springs Operations Center (CSOC).  Surveillance cameras captured images of Duchak entering the facility  after hours loading a logic bomb onto a CSOC server that stored data  from the U.S. Marshals. In January 2011, Duchak was sentenced to two  years prison, $60,587 in fines, and three years probation.  At his sentencing, Duchak tearfully apologized as his lawyer noted that  at the time of the incident, Duchak's wife was pregnant with their  second child. The judge at the sentencing mentioned that this logic bomb  planting "incident was an anomaly in an otherwise untarnished work  history."

You can't definitely filter all the people inside any organization, there will always be some unfortunate people that has malicious neurons...