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Engineer sentenced for locking over 3,000 devices on employer network (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 1 month ago by kid@sh.itjust.works to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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Engineer sentenced for locking over 3,000 devices on employer network (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 1 month ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub [B] to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in New Jersey was sentenced to 32 months in prison for locking thousands of devices on his employer's network in a ransomware-style attack. [...]