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Network Adminstrator Found Guilty of Computer Sabotoge in Philadelphia

Business Wire, 10/16/2001
<a href="http://news.excite.com/news/bw/011015/ma-network-world">http://news.excite.com/news/bw/011015/ma-network-world>

Network World, the leading network news publication, just reported that
Tim Lloyd of Wilmington, Delaware was found guilty of planting a
software time bomb in a centralized file server at Omega Engineering's
Bridgeport, New Jersey manufacturing plant. The Third Circuit Court of
Appeals in Philadelphia Friday reinstated the guilty verdict in the case
of a former network administrator who had been convicted in May 2000 in
the first prosecution of computer sabotage. The malicious software code
destroyed the programs that ran the company's manufacturing machines,
costing Omega more than $10 million in losses and $2 million in
reprogramming costs, and eventually leading to 80 layoffs. Lloyd now
faces sentencing and up to five years in a federal prison.

This is just one of the latest cases involving insider-based network
attacks. Last month, a Miami Florida jury found engineer, Herbert
Pierre-Louis Jr., guilty of planting a software virus that disabled the
computer network at Purity Wholesale Grocers, Inc. for two days. Company
executives testified during the trial that the June 18, 1998 incident at
the $1.5 billion company cost approximately $84,000 in lost profits, new
hardware and software, and the in-house man-hours needed to get the
system up and running again.

Another case is getting ready to go to trial in Las Vegas in October. In
that case, a network consultant is charged with sabotaging the computer
network at one of his clients, Steinberg Diagnostic Medical Imaging in
Las Vegas. Sandusky is charged with three counts of network intrusion
for changing passwords in the network, locking company administrators
out of their own system.

For more detailed information on this story and other computer sabotage
cases, contact Wendie Larkin, Senior Public Relations Manager, Network
World, Inc., (508) 490-6568 -- wlarkin@nww.com. To read this story in
its entirety and more stories on computer sabotage go to Network World
Fusion at www.nwfusion.com

About Network World

Network World, Inc., the Leader in Network Knowledge, empowers Network
IT Executives and enables e-business through education, information and
community. Network World is the leading provider of news, analysis,
reviews, events and education on information technology. Network World
publishes the leading newsweekly, NetworkWorld, hosts the most active
online community, Network World Fusion (http://www.nwfusion.com), and
produces educational seminars and events worldwide.

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