Submission + - Fannie Mae worker indicted for malicious script (dcexaminer.com)
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
Fannie Mae engineers discovered and stopped the script before its scheduled run time of Jan 31st. Phew!
