What I find amazing is that the fired employee's account wasn't disabled immediately upon termination. Sheesh, talk about asking for trouble.....
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Mike French <mike.fre...@theequitybank.com > wrote: > 46. March 17, Wired – (Texas) Hacker disables more than 100 cars > remotely. More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled > or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a > web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention > of consumers delinquent in their auto payments. Police with Austin’s High > Tech Crime Unit on March 17 arrested a 20-year-old who was a former Texas > Auto Center employee who was laid off last month, and allegedly sought > revenge by bricking the cars sold from the dealership’s four Austin-area > lots. The dealership used a system called Webtech Plus as an alternative to > repossessing vehicles that haven’t been paid for. Operated by > Cleveland-based Pay Technologies, the system lets car dealers install a > small black box under vehicle dashboards that responds to commands issued > through a central website, and relayed over a wireless pager network. The > dealer can disable a car’s ignition system, or trigger the horn to begin > honking, as a reminder that a payment is due. The system will not stop a > running vehicle. Texas Auto Center began fielding complaints from baffled > customers the last week in February, many of whom wound up missing work, > calling tow trucks or disconnecting their batteries to stop the honking. The > troubles stopped five days later, when Texas Auto Center reset the Webtech > Plus passwords for all its employee accounts, says the manager of Texas Auto > Center. Then police obtained access logs from Pay Technologies, and traced > the saboteur’s IP address to the suspect’s AT&T internet service, according > to a police affidavit filed in the case. Source: > http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/hacker-brickscars/? > utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+wired/index > +(Wired:+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2<http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/hacker-brickscars/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+wired/index+%28Wired:+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2>)) > > > > > > > *Mike French > **Network Engineer > **~**EQUITY BANK <http://www.theequitybank.com/>* > Office: 214.231.4565 > <mike.fre...@theequitybank.com>mike.fre...@theequitybank.com > > *"Evidently excellence in security by some ** > security-centric vendors is defined as being the head of the class in a > room filled with children without a propensity to learn." - Anonymous* > > > > > > > > -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
