Feds: TSA Worker Tried to Sabotage Terror Database

March 11th, 2010 admin

A former Transportation Security Administration contractor is being charged in Colorado for allegedly injecting malicious code into a government network used for screening airport security workers and others. The malicious code, a logic bomb installed last October, was designed to cause damage and disrupt data on servers on an undisclosed date but was caught by other workers before it delivered its payload. Douglas James Duchak, 46, had worked as a data analyst at the TSA’s Colorado Springs…


Originally posted on Wired

 
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