IT Gone Bad, and Got Busted
The October cover story for Redmond magazine talks about bad IT people taking
advantage of their access to information. The stories are scary, and should
serve as a lesson: IT folks should play it clean, and smart IT managers should
protect assets from other IT people as much as from end users. Read the story
here.
Not all bad IT people get away with it. An ex-systems admin tried to get back
at former employer UBS PaineWebber by sabotaging
the computers and making money from what he hoped would be a dramatic stock
drop. The sabotage worked and 1,000 computers lost their files. However, the
stock held up better than Dick Clark. As a result, Roger Duronio got caught
and is now sentenced to eight years in the pokey.
Posted by Doug Barney on December 19, 2006