http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/239461/exemployee_wiped_financial_data_while_at_bikini_bar.html By Robert McMillan IDG News Sep 2, 2011 At the Bikinis Sports Bar and Grill in Austin, Texas, you can get burgers and beer served to you by cute waitresses wearing denim shorts and bikini tops. And if you're David Palmer, a recently fired IT worker, you can also break into a U.S. military contractor's computer systems and wipe out payroll files, wreaking havoc at its customers. That's exactly what Palmer did on Jan. 21, 2010. Angry that his former employer, McLane Advanced Technologies, had fired him and then refused to help him with an unemployment benefits claim he'd made to the Texas Workforce Commission, Palmer broke into McLane's systems and deleted payroll files belonging to Lone Star Plastics, a McLane customer that makes polyethylene bags and can-liners. He also broke into a second McLane customer, Capstone Mechanical. "The only reason for logging into any of these servers was to create general havoc and disorder for McLane Advanced Technologies the following day," Palmer told investigators, according to court records. The plan worked. When employees at Lone Star Plastics' Prattville, Alabama, facility tried to punch in on the 21st, they discovered that the McLane server that hosted their punch clock software and payroll records had shut down. Two days later, McLane Advanced Technologies contacted the U.S. Secret Service, reporting that it had been hacked. [...] _____________________________________________________________ Register now for the #HITB2011KUL - Asia's premier deep-knowledge network security event now in it's 9th year! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2011kul/Received on Tue Sep 06 2011 - 01:45:37 PDT
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