2009-01-30thetruthaboutmortgage.com

" A former Fannie Mae contracted employee was indicted for computer intrusion this week for allegedly planting a malicious script on the company’s servers in an effort to wipe out all its data."



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BarbedWireSmile at 01:28 2009-01-31 said:
I love this! Attempts at sabotage finally happening.

Let the creative destruction begin. Permalink

SteveP at 04:21 2009-02-01 said:
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By Stefanie Hoffman, ChannelWeb 6:46 PM EST Thu. Jan. 29, 2009 A former engineer at mortgage finance company Fannie Mae was indicted for allegedly planting a "logic bomb" that would have shut down the company for at least a week by destroying all 4,000 of its servers, costing the company millions in lost productivity and damages. Rajendrasinh Makwana, 35, who worked as a Unix engineer from the beginning of 2006 until October 2008, was indicted for sabotaging the mortgage lender's computer network by entering malicious code known as a logic bomb that would have resulted in destroying and altering the entirety of data on Fannie Mae's servers, according to the U.S. District Court indictment.

The logic bomb was embedded with legitimate code and set to launch at 9 a.m. on Jan. 31, but was impeded when another Fannie Mae engineer discovered the malware several days after it was planted.

Makwana, a native of India on a U.S. work visa, was an engineer for IT consulting firm OmniTech, but worked full time as a contracted employee at Fannie Mae's data center in Urbana, Md., from the beginning of 2006 to October of 2008. Makwana was terminated the afternoon of Oct. 24 due to a scripting error he had made earlier in the month. Permalink

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