GeekNews had this story of one employee who is gonna be seeing bars and wearing stripes for being a naughty admin at his old job!
A long nightmare has come to a close for Omega Engineering. The network administrator who destroyed the company"s network is facing 41 months in federal prison, and now - five-and-a-half years after the attack - the company finally is getting back on its feet.
"This closes a chapter for us but we used what happened as a future reference for vigilance," says Jim Ferguson, plant manager of Omega"s Bridgeport, N.J., operation, which was nearly crippled by the 1996 attack. "I don"t think it"s changed the fact that we think of Omega workers as family. It"s like being a parent: There are times when you have to be tough and vigilant, and at the same time you have to give enough latitude to allow people to grow and make contributions."
A federal judge in U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J., last week sentenced Timothy Lloyd, 39, of Wilmington, Del., to nearly three-and-a-half years in prison and ordered him to pay more than $2 million in restitution. Lloyd, who worked for Omega for 11 years, was convicted in May 2000 of planting a software time bomb that destroyed the company"s manufacturing programs, staggering the high-tech measurement and instrumentation manufacturer. The attack cost the company millions of dollars in damages and ultimately prompted 80 layoffs.
Industry analysts say Lloyd"s sentencing is important in sending a message to disgruntled IS workers and in setting case law for the increasing stream of computer crime cases. Since the jury handed down Lloyd"s guilty verdict, there have been at least three other insider sabotage cases that have gone to court.
Omega executives, who testified during the four-week trial, described Lloyd as a longtime trusted employee with access to senior-level management. But as the company grew into a global enterprise, Lloyd started to lose clout, and his frustration with that, executives testified, led to his plot to destroy the network he had created.
Lloyd, who never testified, maintains his innocence. In a statement before the court last week, Lloyd called the charge "false allegations from Omega" and added that the truth never came out during the trial.