Fannie Mae engineer indicted for planting server b

systematical writes: "A former Unix engineer for the Federal National Mortgage Association, better known as Fannie Mae, has been accused of planting malicious code on the corporation's network that was to "destroy and alter" all of the data on the company's servers this Saturday, court documents show. "It was only by chance that [the Fannie Mae engineer] scrolled down to the bottom of the legitimate script to discover the malicious script," the complaint read. If the malicious script had gone undiscovered, it would have disabled monitoring alerts and all logins, deleted the root passwords to the approximately 4,000 servers that Fannie Mae operates, then erased all data and backup data on those servers by overwriting with zeros. "Finally, this script would power off all servers, disabling the ability to remotely turn on a server," said the government's complaint. "Subsequently, the only way to turn the servers back on was physically getting to a datacenter.""