Return-Path: <sentto-279987-4540-1014950119-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 28 Feb 2002 18:43:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 12468 invoked by uid 510); 1 Mar 2002 02:40:31 -0000 Received: from n28.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.78) by all.net with SMTP; 1 Mar 2002 02:40:31 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-4540-1014950119-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [216.115.97.163] by n28.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 01 Mar 2002 02:35:20 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 1 Mar 2002 02:35:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 2280 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2002 02:35:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m9.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 1 Mar 2002 02:35:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.72.152) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Mar 2002 02:35:17 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g212Zc831169 for iwar@onelist.com; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 18:35:38 -0800 Message-Id: <200203010235.g212Zc831169@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 18:35:37 -0800 (PST) Subject: [iwar] [fc:Computer.Programmer.Sentenced.in.NJ.Sabotage.Case] Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Computer Programmer Sentenced in NJ Sabotage Case Reuters, 2/26/02 <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&u=/nm/20020226/tc_nm/crime_computers_dc_1">http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&u=/nm/20020226/tc_nm/crime_computers_dc_1> NEWARK, N.J. (Reuters) - A computer programmer was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday to more than three years in prison for sabotaging his former company's computers, causing a loss of more than $10 million, in the first such case to be tried under a new federal law, prosecutors said. Timothy Lloyd, 39, of Wilmington, Delaware, also was ordered to pay $2 million in restitution to Omega Engineering Corp., a Bridgeport, New Jersey, defense contractor with offices in Stamford, Connecticut. Lloyd was a "disgruntled employee" demoted after 11 years as the company's chief programmer who retaliated by setting off a computer "time bomb" that deleted the company's most critical software programs, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Grady O'Malley. The "time bomb" program went off without warning on July 31, 1996, when an employee randomly logged on, he said. The company claimed to have lost more than $10 million in sales and future contracts as a result. The programs that were deleted had been "the lifeblood of the company" that instructed robotic machines to build Omega's measurement and control instruments, O'Malley said. Lloyd, who faced a maximum possible sentence of five years in prison on the single count of computer fraud, was sentenced to three years and five months by U.S. District Court Judge William Walls. Lloyd was originally convicted in May 2000. That decision was overturned and then upheld in December 2001 by a federal appeals court. Lloyd told the court on Tuesday he was the victim of "a conspiracy" between the company and government, said his attorney, Edward Crisonino, who said he will appeal. Crisonino said the government's evidence, including a hard drive found by Secret Service agents in Lloyd's garage containing time bomb computer code, was insufficient proof of Lloyd's guilt. "It could have been a computer failure or, even if it was a time bomb, we don't feel they proved it was him," Crisonino said. Other employees had easy access to the company's network system and could have committed sabotage, he said. The case is the first to be tried under a relatively new federal law -- Fraud and Related Activities In Connection With Computers -- set up in 1994 amid a growing wave of computer hacking, O'Malley said. Others have committed crimes covered by the law but have pled guilty and not gone to trial, the prosecutor said. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Tiny Wireless Camera under $80! Order Now! FREE VCR Commander! Click Here - Only 1 Day Left! http://us.click.yahoo.com/nuyOHD/7.PDAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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