IsDavisLuEnabledInActiveDirectory? Not any more. IsDavisLuGuilty? Yes. IsDavisLuFacingJail? Also yes A federal jury in Cleveland has found a senior software developer guilty of sabotaging his employer’s systems – and he’s now facing a potential ten years behind bars.…
And that, kids, is why you leave breadcrumbs going to someone else if you’re going to do something stupid like this.
Silly davis. Shoulda put a key element reliant on alerting his email address like most devs
I’m reminded of some garbage post I saw in the hell known as LinkedIn. Some soulless suit was saying “Don’t do PRs - just let your team merge directly to production.” I didn’t engage with it because I hate everything about LinkedIn and its clickbait trash feed, but “it protects you from a lone disgruntled employee” was one of the reasons I thought about.
If this dev had this much access and his work didn’t do any sort of code review, I don’t understand how their CSOC or ISO isn’t on trial along with him.
This is terrible OpSec.
In order for me to create an IAM role, I have to have two different people to approve it, along with the access control team, along with a change review on what the role does and how it will authenticate.
Dev teams cannot access production. Prod teams cannot access code directly. Only machine roles can access databases directly.
We have so many checks and balances that it’s amazing we get anything done.
I work in a high security industry. You’d be amazed at what you can do if you are willing to ignore the process. Our real defense against insider threats is attribution, law enforcement, and incident recovery. By the sounds of it, that is exactly what happened.
Dude is an absolute legend!
Honestly remarkably stupid. His scheme had no way for him to claim plausible deniability. So while he got to gloat a little bit on the way out the door, he’s suffering far worse consequences than just being out of a job and I’m sure the legal fees he’s paying are ridiculous too.
Also company would have suffered the same fate if he died also. So even if he got promoted and the company treated him well, the company and his coworkers would have suffered if he got hit by a bus. Dude was a selfish idiot.
I mostly agree but from the article, it’s clear that he only hatched his little stupid scheme when he got demoted.
Nah.
We saw this happen in the 90’s when controls were practically non-existant.
This behaviour (and his lack of concealing it), just reinforces you don’t want him as an employee - partly because he never considered the implications of his actions.
Now he gets to deal with the legal consequences of this - court alone is going to be stressful and expensive, then jail time. Dude ended his career doing this.
Undoubtedly.
Still, he will go down in history both for his stupidity AND boldness.
