[Year 12 IT Apps] The perils of disgruntled employees - good for U4O1

[Mark KELLY]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/hacker-bricks-cars/

"More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the
horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based
vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of
consumers delinquent in their auto payments.

Police with Austin’s High Tech Crime Unit on Wednesday arrested 20-year-old
Omar Ramos-Lopez, a former Texas Auto Center employee who was laid off last
month, and allegedly sought revenge by bricking the cars sold from the
dealership’s four Austin-area lots."

-- 
Mark Kelly
Manager - Information Systems
McKinnon Secondary College
McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia
Direct line / Voicemail: 8520 9085
School Phone +613 8520 9000
School Fax +613 9578 9253
kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au

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