All the latest UK technology news, reviews and analysis
|
|
|
28 Feb 2002
An IT programmer who booby-trapped his company's systems faces a $2m fineand three years in jail.
Timothy Lloyd, 39, of New Jersey, was so angry when his employer demoted him that he spiked the business's IT system so that it deleted critical software, causing more than $10m worth of damage.
It has taken nearly four years to bring the case to trail, and was the first to be brought under tough new US hacking laws - the Fraud and Related Activities In Connection with Computers legislation.
The laws were introduced in 1997.
Latest stories from Skills
Related articles
Related jobs
Poll
Are you confident that the UK's IT infrastructure is secure from attack in the wake of the Flame malware revelations?
Orange and Intel talk us through the ins and outs of their San Diego smartphone
Connect with V3.co.uk
The wrong printers, for the wrong tasks on the wrong contracts
Who leads the BI pack and who should we be watching out for?
Implementation Consultant - Business Intelligence Software...
SQL Server DBA, ETL, SSIS, Datawarehousing, Financial...
Job description *Customer facing: should be able to...
PHP / MySQL / Zend Framework Developer - Chelmsford...
Keep up to date with the latest products, services and technologies from the world's leading IT companies. IThound.com brings you over 2,000 white papers, case studies and analyst reports.
Do you agree?