Yung-Hsun Lin recently plead guilty to writing and installing a logic bomb on the company network at Medco Health Solutions. Concerned he may be laid off, he planned on disrupting Medco Health Solutions ability to know if a customer’s new prescriptions would have adverse interactions with their existing prescriptions.

Fortunately another administrator found the threat before it had a chance to go off. Medco estimates the problem cost them between $70,000 - $120,000 to clean up.

If convicted, Lin could be facing 10 years in prison; although his plea deal is for 30 to 37 months.

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According to a recent press release, Kaspersky reported finding the Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah virus on brand new Maxtor 3200 Personal Storage drives sold in the Netherlands.

The virus looks around a computer searching for gaming passwords and deletes MP3 files. Kaspersky speculates these drives were some how infected during the formating process.

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The University of California recently has been hit with a proposed $3 Million fine by the U.S. Department of Energy for their alleged failures to protect classified information in a data breach back in October 2006. I am quite confident that the fine is only a portion of the financial responsibility as a result to this breach, quite likely not even the largest.

We tell our clients that protecting your grand moma’s apple pie recipe is only a single goal of Information & Data Security. Liability, reputation, and compliance are other good reasons to be concerned and pro-active with security. Pro-active Security is a time consuming and expensive task, but is yet considerably cheaper than the alternative; a security breach.

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