Rajendrasinh B Makwana, an Indian National, was employed by a subcontractor for OmniTech as a Unix engineer at Fannie Mae's Urbana, according to an affidavit by the FBI agent investigating. On October 24 at about 1:30 pm, Makwana was fired by Fannie Mae for inadvertently writing a script that switched up permissions on the company's Unix servers. He told his supervisors at OmniTech and turned in his badge and laptop to Fannie Mae around 4:45 pm that day.
FBI agent Jessica Nye says "Makwana created a erroneously computer script that changed the settings on the Unix servers without the proper authority of his supervisor."
As per the U.S. district court Makwana integrated a malicious code with the legitimate code and malware set to trigger off at 09:00 am on 31st Jan 2009. Company served from heavy loss by an engineer who detected the malware and its activities. It detected after several day it was planted. Companies must also find ways to secure the data concerned with various operations, he added.
RB Makwana was indicted on 29th Jan 2009. For unauthorized computer access after allegedly installing a malicious script on fannie mae's computer server. The script called a logic bomb, was executed on 31st Jan 2009, was discovered by Unix engineer accidentally. the script has potential to wipe of the institution's more then 4000 server clean, and also causing millions of dollars in damages and ability to shutting down the computer at least for a week.
For this little stunt R B makwana is now facing up to 10 years in prison. Click here for more information about Rajendrasinh Makwana.
FBI agent Jessica Nye says "Makwana created a erroneously computer script that changed the settings on the Unix servers without the proper authority of his supervisor."As per the U.S. district court Makwana integrated a malicious code with the legitimate code and malware set to trigger off at 09:00 am on 31st Jan 2009. Company served from heavy loss by an engineer who detected the malware and its activities. It detected after several day it was planted. Companies must also find ways to secure the data concerned with various operations, he added.
RB Makwana was indicted on 29th Jan 2009. For unauthorized computer access after allegedly installing a malicious script on fannie mae's computer server. The script called a logic bomb, was executed on 31st Jan 2009, was discovered by Unix engineer accidentally. the script has potential to wipe of the institution's more then 4000 server clean, and also causing millions of dollars in damages and ability to shutting down the computer at least for a week.
For this little stunt R B makwana is now facing up to 10 years in prison. Click here for more information about Rajendrasinh Makwana.
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