Man Installed "Kill Switch" So That If He Was Ever Fired, All Hell Would Break Loose
A Texas software developer by the name of Davis Lu was found guilty by a federal jury yesterday for maliciously disrupting servers at Eaton Corp, a huge power management company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. An employee since 2007, Lu's efforts at digital sabotage started in 2018 when he became frustrated with Eaton's management, which had begun "corporate realignment" — a vague PR term that usually means layoffs are imminent. In this case, Lu's work duties shifted, and he found that his system access had been reduced. Fearing the worst, the software dev hatched a plan straight out of Tron: […]
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