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Saturday, January 31, 2009

Fannie Mae Contractor Indicted For Planting Malicious Code Time Bomb

Fannie Mae Contractor Indicted For Planting Malicious Code Time Bomb


Jason Lee Miller
Staff Writer
2009-01-30

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Wouldn't it have been fun, after all of Fannie Mae's other woes, their
entire IT system-consisting of 4,000 servers, just up and crashed? Had
it not been for a chance discovery, that would have happened tomorrow
morning.

Fannie Mae Contractor Indicted For Planting Malicious Code Time Bomb

Imagine if, after 9:00 a.m. tomorrow, anyone trying to log on to Fannie
Mae servers was greeted with an error message reading "Server
Graveyard." If Rajendrasinh Makwana did what a federal grand jury thinks
he did, Fannie Mae would have been sent back to the 19th Century.

Go there...

http://www.securitypronews.com/insiderreports/insider/spn-49-20090130FannieMaeContractorIndictedForPlantingMaliciousCodeTimeBomb.html

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