[ISN] Former employee accused of writing virus to target Whac-a-Mole machines

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:26:37 -0600 (CST)
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/crime/os-arrest-virus-whac-a-mole-20110224,0,6618031.story

By Gary Taylor
Orlando Sentinel
February 24, 2011

Whac-A-Mole seems like it could be endless fun.

Moles pop out of five holes in the arcade game and a soft mallet is used 
to force them back into the holes to score points.

Children and adults alike could whack the moles for hours at a time.

Or at least they could until a worker programmed a virus into the 
machines to make them shut down after a pre-determined number of plays, 
Holly Hill police said.

Now they have arrested that man, Marvin Walter Wimberly Jr., 61, of 
Orlando, who faces a charge of offenses against intellectual property.

It was all a scheme by Wimberly to insure job security, according to an 
arrest affidavit.

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