had seen a news story about the "Love Letter" worm and its attendant havoc and released the internet's first worm. . combinations, downloaded the file and ran the program it contained. Id. For more accounts of notorious hacks, see the Discovery Channel's "Hackers Hall The Secret Service said that Lloyd As an opinion from the Sixth Circuit recently stated, " [i]f courts were to permit a lone juror to attack a verdict through an open-ended narrative concerning the thoughts, views, statements, feelings, and biases of herself and all other jurors sharing in that verdict, the integrity of the American jury system would suffer irreparably." a juvenile detention center. of Appellant at 47. expected by late March 2001. siphoned from its accounts. ordered him to pay Citibank $240,000. Once the virus penetrated a 98-CR-00061) [Copyrighted Material Omitted] [Copyrighted Material Omitted], Robert J. Cleary United States Attorney George S. Leone Chief, Appeals Division Shawna H. Yen (Argued) Assistant United States Attorney Office of United States Attorney Newark, N.J. 07102, Attorneys for Appellant, Edward J. Crisonino (Argued) Law Offices of Edward J. Crisonino Westmont, N.J. 08108, Attorney for Appellee, Before: Sloviter, Rendell, and Fuentes, Circuit Judges. Introducing the HANI Clamp Temperature Sensor from Omega. Mayhue, 969 F.2d at 926 (stating that prejudice may be inferred where jury reaches verdict less than three hours after being exposed to extraneous information "despite having been plagued by `irreconcilable differences' the night before"). After three days of deliberation, the jury found Lloyd guilty of computer sabotage but acquitted him on a second charge of interstate transportation of stolen goods. On New Year's Eve in 1993, the day before the North American Free Trade As this court recently discussed in Wilson, we do not permit jurors to impeach their own verdicts. The Most Risky Job Ever. Reporting on ISIS in Afghanistan. at 571-572. at 502, 548. newspapers as the mastermind behind the internet's first-ever bank raid. However, in the instant case, after the District Court deviated from Federal Rule of Evidence 606(b) by questioning Simpson about the actual effect the "Love Bug" story had on her vote, App. anticipated. Mr. Lloyd started working for Omega in 1985, climbing up the ranks to become chief network program designer at the company's manufacturing plant in Bridgeport, about 22 miles southwest of. to the alt.sex newsgroup from an America Online (AOL) email account. had committed the largest ever act of worker-related computer sabotage, causing He created the network that the prosecution said he later destroyed. Tim Lloyd, 39, of Wilmington, Del., must surrender to the U.S. federal court May 6. We concluded that such deliberate care suggested that the extraneous information did not prejudice the jury. Levin, they say, used In contrast, the jurors in this case dealt with only one defendant, two counts, and a two-week trial. https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/18/nyregion/man-charged-with-sabotage-of-computers.html. Lloyd then interviewed with W.L. AOL's servers had served as a conduit for the virus, which was contained in a Where the improper publicity is of a less serious nature however, no similar presumption applies." His performance was rated a `7' on a scale of 1 to 10, which meant "often exceeds expectations." The government must send a message to systems managers and people in trust that there will be a day of reckoning.". Six weeks later the FBI's National Infrastructure Theater (EDT). In Gilsenan, we noted that "the jury deliberated for a week and delivered a fractured1 verdict showing that it carefully delineated among the offenses and between the appellants." However, the conviction was short-lived. at 679. According to the government, Lloyd alone was responsible for backing up the information on the system onto tapes and he was subject to no oversight in this capacity. App. The Secret Service said that Lloyd had committed the largest ever act of worker-related computer sabotage, causing Omega nearly $10 million in lost sales. Omega Man: The Implosion of Tim Lloyd In document Tangled Web Tales of Digital Crime from the Shadows of Cyberspace pdf (Page 196-200) In the 2000 CSI/FBI survey, 28 respondents were able to quantify financial losses from incidents involving sabotage of data or networks for a total of $27,148,000. But hacks were still more of an annoyance than anything devastating, though it was quickly becoming apparent . banking. 606(b)). Olson further testified that the "time bomb" was planted prior to July 30, 1996, and even prior to February 21, 1996, the date of the first test. App. message itself and the equipment used to post the message. at 906-907. App. the insurgency in Mexico and its use of modern technology has led to what one incapacitated computer networks at about 300 corporations. 1996, the date that the bomb was set to detonate. activists. Agreement went into effect, the Zapatista National Liberation Army declared the However, in light of the significant dissimilarities between the "Love Bug" and the "time bomb," the court's conclusion that the average juror would "use" the information at all cannot be sustained. App. Contact M.R. Walsh objected, fearing that the removal of these programs from individual computers could cause the whole computer system to crash, yet Lloyd apparently remained steadfast in his position. On cross-examination, the defense questioned Ontrack expert Robert Hackett, "Were you ever asked, at the outset of your data recovery attempt, to investigate whether this was done via modem?" This court has applied the presumption of prejudice only when the extraneous information is of a considerably serious nature. 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We also require your annual production volume, material preference, and any secondary operations that may be needed in order to provide you with an accurate quote. On cross-examination, Inglin testified that he gained supervisory-level access to the Omega network from either Ferguson, DiFrancesco, or Jim Daniels, an Omega employee trained in Novell networks. Mr. Lloyd started working for Omega in 1985, climbing up the ranks to become chief network program designer at the company's manufacturing plant in Bridgeport, about 22 miles southwest of Philadelphia. According to published reports, Citibank's security system flagged two The court repeatedly asked her to explain the actual effect this information had on her vote, but she provided conflicting answers. We are talking about something that overloaded circuits in many of the companies, including the Pentagon. According to the government, Lloyd's behavior raised concerns with a number of Omega's managers, in particular Ferguson, who decided in late June 1996 that it was time to fire Lloyd. In this case, the "Love Bug" story might be viewed as suggesting that Lloyd could have gained access to the Omega network even after his termination of employment there. Olson characterized a string of commands entitled "FUSE.EXE" as a "time bomb" because anyone who attempted to log on to the server on any date after July 30, 1996 would detonate the program and cause a massive deletion of data. It was July 31, 1996, the date that the bomb was set to detonate. Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968--originally passed to allow law A computer programmer who was dismissed from his job at a New Jersey engineering company has been charged with planting a computer ''bomb'' that deleted software critical to the company's operations and caused the loss of more than $10 million in sales and contracts, according to court papers unsealed yesterday. Traditionally, appellate courts give considerable deference to a district court's examination of the prejudicial effect of extraneous information on a jury's verdict. indicated that Levin gained access to the company's cash management system The charges were in connection with a 1996 crime that cost Omega Engineering Corp., a Stamford, Conn.-based high-tech . The government further argued at trial that Lloyd had tested the "time bomb" on three separate occasions prior to July 31, 1996. of political interaction is being rewritten, thanks in part to the internet. The defense further argued that Omega's written policy against working at home had never been enforced. Most significant is the fact that the story of the "Love Bug" virus, as explained earlier, is entirely unrelated to the facts and the theories of this case. Omega Engineering, Inc. 26904 Network Place Chicago, IL 60673-1269: Payments by Wire Transfer (203) 359-1660 (Mon-Fri. 8am to 5pm EST) Payments can also be made via the BillPay Plus Portal: W-9 Form: W-9 Download: ISO Certification: ISO-9001: Corporate Status: Large Business, incorporated in Delaware. them to the suspect's house. App. App. Ultimately resulting in deleting the software that ran their manufacturing systems, costing $2 million in repairs, $10 million in revenue and 80 employees beeing laid off. In part, the critical timing of the exposure to the extraneous information persuaded the Waldorf court to find prejudice. On July 30, 1996, the bomb went off after a co-worker switched on a computer terminal. In too many cases, said Professor Bashein of California State University, companies have tried to rush new employees into their jobs without giving them adequate training in corporate ethics. In the Tim Lloyd logic bomb attack on Omega Engineering, what type of vulnerability was the existence of the user, "12345," an example of? /j`Ibq~76x`@l\wZ$|LjcZc? It didn't delete information." Morris, the son of a National Security In response, Omega tried to hire locally-based programmers to recover the lost programs but these efforts proved futile. was replicating and infecting machines at a much faster rate than he had Ferguson went to Lloyd's house to look for tapes, but again did not find any. 898 F.2d at 261. federal sentencing guidelines allow for a maximum of $80 million in damages. Industry analysts estimate that in-house security breaches account for 70 to 90 percent of the attacks on corporate computer networks. Monday through Thursday. information about their uprising to the public. 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See Gilsenan, 949 F.2d at 95-96 (not applying presumption of prejudice to media coverage of failed plea agreement in the case); United States v. D'Andrea, 495 F.2d 1170, 1172 n.5 (3d Cir. S 3731. External sites are not endorsed by CNN Interactive. He had worked there for 11 years, eventually assuming a See Console, 13 F.3d at 667 (approving the district court's inquiry as to the identities of jurors exposed to the extraneous information); Waldorf, 3 F.3d at 711 (noticing that half of the jurors had been exposed to the allegedly prejudicial information). southernmost state in Mexico an autonomous region for the indigenous Mayan 'o|M x8pUa1`%dR0"{5\qT8'F C,K[\"3MtA0!Lz|Ky=vB_)'Y.DmO`NOF,+XEi@ ly> U'IHzZ:i{|n6@xQzIMXiEx1s-3Fw{SV=/&7o|FcSP7n&5kE.|_HJ[J}O}zQJ(UMXw*zUVxh=Qre{m;R58}-n` {b). /vcT]9C"L/?[pjn2YNs!51>%\qEI$bd"9kE=)o{m^:-Vy ` L Because of the attack, Stamford, Conn.-based Omega lost its competitive footing in the high-tech instrument and measurement market. at 229. ISIS' growing foothold in Afghanistan is captured on film. And the percentage is probably even higher than that because most insider attacks go undetected. to the networks, he conceded that he did intend to gain access to the affected Exchange, the Pentagon, and the web site for Mexican President Ernest Zedillo so, they served as propagators of the virus. The activists' browsers were flooded with graphics On May 16, 2000, the court conducted that hearing and then repeated its questioning of the juror in front of counsel. at 946-949, 951-952. [7] It has sales offices in the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, China, Brazil, Singapore, Korea, Japan, and Mexico. Sign up for our free summaries and get the latest delivered directly to you. hastily laid phone lines, laptops, modems, and other gear to disseminate Lloyd, a former network administrator at Omega Engineering Corp., thought he had not only destroyed his former. Robert Hackett, Ontrack's Remote Data Recovery Operations Supervisor, testified at trial that "issu [ing a] `delete' would be similar to someone just taking a piece of paper and putting it into the trash bin, [but] issuing a `purge,' that is going to take what's in the trash bin, shred it into very small pieces, and throw [ ] them all up in the air." We review a district court's grant of a motion for a new trial as well as its investigation of extraneous information for an abuse of discretion. "They had a menu of activities they could perform," says Richard Power, App. While Citibank spokespeople have a list of sexually oriented web sites along with user ID and password In 1996, Tim Lloyd, an 11-year employee of OMEGA and a network administrator within . App. And then Though the Melissa virus reportedly caused nearly $400 million in damages, Since Omega makes components for clients such as NASA and the U.S. Navy, those systems were the company's rainmakers. messages on alt.sex. The jury deliberated for 12 hours over three days, during which it asked questions to the trial court, asked for certain testimony to be read back, and asked for additional testimony to be delivered to the jury room. TIL that after, Tim Lloyd, an 11-year employee of OMEGA got fired he unleashed a hacking "Time Bomb" within their systems. attack can be orchestrated from a remote location. On November 18, 1999, Carnegie Mellon's It is the party seeking the new trial, here Lloyd, who bears the burden of demonstrating the likelihood of prejudice. Simpson told the trial judge that over the weekend in the midst of deliberations she saw a television report discussing a computer virus called the "Love Bug." was finally laid to rest. Government witnesses testified to Lloyd's workplace behavior and even an expert testified that the same program that allegedly caused the "purge" of all the network files was also present on the hard drive of a computer found at Lloyd's home. Gore employee also testified that Lloyd had asked at one point that his references at Omega not be contacted for awhile. the first hit on February 7, 2000. preventing users from using the machines effectively, if at all. See App. . Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) issued an See United States v. Console, 13 F.3d 641, 666 (3d Cir. at 922. conviction against Tim Lloyd, 37, of Wilmington, Delaware. Included in that equipment, officials said, was a backup tape that could have allowed Omega to recover the lost files. In fact, Dennis Szerszen, director of security strategies at Hurwitz Group Inc. in Framingham, Massachusetts, said that for every in-house attack reported, there could be as many as 50 that go unreported or undetected. Any file format is acceptable. S 2, and (2) transportation of stolen goods, namely computer hardware and software equipment, in violation of 18 U.S.C. The Melissa virus, however, was rapacious; damages have Note: Pages will open in a new browser window. One of to issue a counteroffensive. In a denial-of-service attack, the target system is rendered inoperable. The Pentagon, which had been alerted to EDT's plans, fought back. at 953. Moreover, during deliberations Lloyd's jury asked the court a number of questions and even requested that certain trial testimony be delivered to the jury room. 1993) (stating that application of the presumption is most appropriate when there is direct communication between a juror and a third-party during deliberations); see also United States v. Boylan, 898 F.2d 230, 261 (1st Cir. Calvin Cantrell of Dallas was sentenced to 24 months. Even a rank-and-file employee who knows how to use the E-mail system could damage the employer.''. An assistant United States attorney, V. Grady O'Malley, described Mr. Lloyd as a ''computer whiz kid'' who started working for Omega when he was about 20. Government witnesses testified that normally with Novell networks only one person has supervisory-level access and that that one person at Omega was Lloyd. He found that the program that deleted files was similar to a Microsoft program called "DELTREE," but only reconfigured for Novell. at 585. at 601-602. Beverage sensing requires strict hygenic standards and accurate sensing to deliver safe and delicious beverages. Virgin Islands v. Dowling, 814 F.2d 134, 138 (3d Cir. Under federal computer sabotage laws, Lloyd could have received up to five years in jail. at 605. Thanks for your replies, and have a great day. We presume that juries follow such instructions. First, the communications are numbers for their own use. The tag provided investigators with information on the on unwitting hosts. Retrieved 13 September 2014. All networks of a number of companies including MCI WorldCom, Sprint, AT&T, and at 601-602. Lloyd was convicted in May of 2000 of planting a software time bomb in a centralized file server at Omega Engineering's Bridgeport, New Jersey, manufacturing plant. through valid accounts that weren't protected by encryption, there has been According to Grady O'Malley of the U.S. Attorney's Office, the juror officials then contacted the FBI, who tracked Levin as he trespassed on He was apprehended in London at Heathrow Airport in March 1995. According to Grady O'Malley of the U.S. Attorney's Office, the juror had seen a news story about the "Love Letter" worm and its attendant havoc and couldn't decide whether the story had had an effect on her decision to convict Lloyd. In November, Federal prosecutors charged a former employee at Forbes Inc. with breaking into the publishing company's computers after he was dismissed in the spring, sabotaging the system and causing an estimated $100,000 in damage. Ferguson described Lloyd to W.L. The genesis of this presumption is the Supreme Court's opinion in Remmer v. United States, 347 U.S. 227 (1954), where the Court explained that " [i]n a criminal case, any private communication, contact, or tampering directly or indirectly, with a juror during a trial about a matter pending before the jury is, for obvious reasons, deemed presumptively prejudicial, if not made in pursuance of known rules of the court with full knowledge of the parties." of unauthorized access devices and unauthorized access to a federal computer. The court first rejected the government's argument that "the information of the Philippine `love bug' should fall in the classification of just general common knowledge." Levin. United States v. Gonzalez, 227 F.3d 520, 527 (6th Cir. approximately $1.85 million in business losses. David L. Smith, 30 years old at the time, said he named the virus after an Though the rebels are under constant surveillance by the authorities, they use Through the tap, the FBI was able to capture destructive "malware." See id. Although defense witnesses contradicted some of the government's assertions regarding those employees with supervisory-level access, Lloyd's likely termination, and his behavior at work, it was up to the jury to assess the credibility of witnesses and choose between the government's and the defendant's view of the evidence. '', Mr. Kaigh said he was confident that Mr. Lloyd, who he said is 35 and has no prior criminal record, would be exonerated. Id. In particular, we have tended to apply the presumption of prejudice when a juror is directly contacted by third- parties. craigchamberlain.com. App. He also received a 4% raise, which was lower than his 7.2% raise in 1993, 4.6% raise in 1994, and 4.92% raise in 1995. original message to alt.sex. According to news reports, the earliest evidence of Melissa was in a posting Tim Lloyd, 39, of Wilmington, Del., must surrender to the U.S. federal court May 6. A new trial is warranted if the defendant likely suffered "substantial prejudice" as a result of the jury's exposure to the extraneous information. Anyone can read what you share. "They Witnesses testified that he repeatedly elbowed, shoved, and bumped colleagues in the hallways, and that he became verbally abusive. couldn't decide whether the story had had an effect on her decision to convict App. at 758. He did so after a juror who heard the case approached the court with concerns just days after the guilty verdict was handed in. pled guilty to 56 charges, including mischief and illegal use of a computer See United States v. Bertoli, 40 F.3d 1384, 1392-93 (3d Cir. Timothy Allen Lloyd, (DOB 1967-10-16), of Wilmington, a former computer network programmer for Omega Engineering Corp. ("Omega"), a Bridgeport, Gloucester County, New Jersey corporation with offices in Stamford, Connecticut, and branches around the world, was arraigned before U.S. District Judge William H. Walls. Protection Center (NIPC) issued a similar warning and offered free software at 423. Access Introduction to Computer Security 1st Edition Chapter 4.6 Problem 2R solution now. Sealed App. Significantly, evidence that went unchallenged included: the string of commands found on the hard drive in Lloyd's home that was identical to that used in the program that purged the Omega network of all its files; the testimony that the "time bomb" had been tested three times previously and that on each occasion Lloyd had stayed late at the office; Lloyd's willingness to accept up to $12,000 less in a job with W.L. In 1994, Russian hacker Vladimir Levin engineered a heist from installing the denial-of-service script on several computers, a coordinated Lloyd never did so. ''It had a devastating impact on the company, but we've picked up the pieces and we're marching on. See Bertoli, 40 F.3d at 1393; Mayhue, 969 F.2d at 922. The government appeals. ISIS is in Afghanistan, But Who Are They Really? The court then questioned as to the subjective effect of this information, and she stated that she learned that it was possible for the person who set off the "Love Bug" virus to affect computers worldwide, and thought that it was possible for Lloyd to have triggered the "time bomb" in the Omega computer system without having direct physical access to the computer server at the time. According to the policy, all employees were required to save their files to the file server and were prohibited from making their own backups. It is apparent from the transcript of the District Court's interview with Simpson that the court's questioning went beyond the scope permitted by Rule 606(b). Errors were found with the address you provided. To date, most computer sabotage cases have been handled internally, and not legally, because of the potential embarrassment. The firing was effective immediately and Lloyd was quickly escorted from the premises. ", some photos copyright 2001 photodisc artist" rather than a cyberterrorist, Smith was ultimately charged under both To curtail the spread of the 13 F.3d at 668-69 (quotation omitted). Gore & Associates at a job fair about a possible job opening. at 524. Citibank, tricking the company's computers into distributing an estimated $10 hacked into the computer systems of several companies and downloaded calling That same day Lloyd told representatives of W.L. Gore than in his position at Omega; and Lloyd's comment to a W.L. The attacks These tags helped 1974) (per curiam) (not applying presumption to media coverage of defendant's indictment on other charges and its description of him as a "reputed underworld figure"); see also Console, 13 F.3d at 666 n.29 (distinguishing cases not applying presumption of prejudice as cases "not involv [ing] third-party contact with a juror"). in southern Mexico. 3 F.3d at 713. After In the future, Mr. Overly said, companies should be wary of even the least talented of employees possessing the ability to wreak technological havoc. Craig Chamberlain Security Do-er. the Phonemasters keystrokes as they exchanged stolen credit card numbers. Nine former Omega employees testified that they never had any problems with Lloyd and that Lloyd was always very professional. 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