Fannie Mae Worker Indicted For Malicious Script 325
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.'"
erase my mortgage (Score:5, Funny)
The First Rule of Fight Club (Score:5, Funny)
but would it have had graphics? (Score:5, Funny)
Either a laughing skull and bones or an animated version of him as a bobblehead that pisses off Samuel L. Jackson with his hacker crap?
But did it.... (Score:5, Funny)
My goodness! It might have... (Score:5, Funny)
It's a deal! (Score:5, Funny)
Considering that Fannie Mae has been losing billions every week, the idea of only losing a few million for a week sounds like a great idea.
I am .... (Score:5, Funny)
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise
Technically (Score:5, Funny)
Technically, all of the data in a computer is really just a bunch of ones and zeros, so assuming a fairly even mix of those two possibilities, writing over everything with zeros would only change half of their data.
Re:My goodness! It might have... (Score:1, Funny)
"Fixed that for you" and "...you insensitive clod!" are hilarious. They will never die.
Fixed that for you, you insensitive clod.
Woah (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's a deal! (Score:3, Funny)
"Your honor, I didn't want to cause damage, actually, I wanted to help save a little money by only damaging them for a few millions so they cannot blow billions of taxpayer money this week"
Re:erase my mortgage (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"Rajendrasinh Babubhai Makwan"? (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, but his friends call him "Raj".
My gods man, have you never placed a call to tech support, his name is (Tom, Mike, George, or Larry)
Re:Woah (Score:5, Funny)
The first rule of PC Load Letter is you don't talk about PC Load Letter.
Why oh why (Score:4, Funny)
couldn't somebody at the credit company do this...and not get caught?
Zero vs. Less Than Zero (Score:5, Funny)
Wouldn't zero be an improvement over negative whatever?
Re:Technically (Score:5, Funny)
Great defense.
"In fairness, a lot of those were zeros already."
Re:erase my mortgage (Score:2, Funny)
Foreclosed upon with extreme prejudice.
Re:Security is a process (Score:4, Funny)
Which is obviously part of their overall security policy, to only hire incompetent programmers.
Re:but would it have had graphics? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:erase my mortgage (Score:5, Funny)
You know, we slashdotters, as natural problem-solvers, should get together and work on a program to do that. It's a pretty pie-in-the-sky idea, though. Hey, that gives me an idea. We should call it "Pie-in-the-Sky."
No, sounds too hokey. Need something more computer-sounding. How about "Skynet"?
overblown (Score:2, Funny)
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