{"id":1238394,"date":"2025-03-10T13:10:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1238394"},"modified":"2025-03-10T13:10:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:10:28","slug":"developer-convicted-for-kill-switch-code-activated-upon-his-termination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1238394","title":{"rendered":"Developer convicted for \u201ckill switch\u201d code activated upon his termination"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A 55-year-old software developer faces up to 10 years in prison for deploying malicious code that sabotaged his former employer&#8217;s network, allegedly costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The US Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/texas-man-convicted-sabotaging-his-employers-computer-systems-and-deleting-data\">announced<\/a> Friday that Davis Lu was convicted by a jury after &#8220;causing intentional damage to protected computers&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/court-justice\/2025\/03\/former-eaton-corp-employee-found-guilty-of-sabotaging-companys-computer-systems.html\">reportedly<\/a> owned by the Ohio- and Dublin-based power management company Eaton Corp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lu had worked at Eaton Corp. for about 11 years when he apparently became disgruntled by a corporate &#8220;realignment&#8221; in 2018 that &#8220;reduced his responsibilities,&#8221; the DOJ said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/03\/fired-coder-faces-10-years-for-revenge-kill-switch-he-named-after-himself\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/03\/fired-coder-faces-10-years-for-revenge-kill-switch-he-named-after-himself\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 55-year-old software developer faces up to 10 years in prison for deploying malicious code that sabotaged his former employer&#8217;s network, allegedly costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses. The US Department of Justice announced Friday that Davis Lu &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1238394\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1238394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1238394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1238394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1238394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}