Though “everyone knows” the threat and consequences of insider attacks, it was still shocking to read the headlines that a former Unix engineer at mortgage giant Fannie Mae was charged in federal court with allegedly planting a logic bomb that would have effectively shut down all 4,000 servers at Fannie. The FBI alleges that this logic bomb planted in a script would have “caused millions of dollars of damage and reduced if not shut down operations” for at least one week. And it was “only by chance” that another Unix engineer spotted the logic bomb a week after it was planted.
