米國的抓替罪羊運動開始了，不過，這次替罪羊的名字不叫李文和

米國的抓替罪羊運動開始了，不過，這次替罪羊的名字不叫李文和

這次不是李文和，而是Rajendrasinh Babubhai Makwana（看這名字是老印）。

但事實上米國經濟危機的罪魁禍首是誰呢？同時看到的一條新聞給了個線索－－－－－－ Despite sliding profits in 4th quarter, Exxon sets record for 2008

隨著米國經濟危機的加深，新麥卡錫主義出籠也未可知。


Insider plot to take down Fannie Mae's servers thwarted

Friday, January 30, 2009

Washington (DC) - On October 29, 2008, a vigilant senior Unix engineer happened across a "logic bomb" that was allegedly planted by a contractor, Rajendrasinh Babubhai Makwana, who had worked in their Urbana, MD facility until October 24, 2008 when his contract was terminated. The script was set to activate on January 31, 2009 and would completely wipe all of Fannie Mae's 4,000 servers. According to engineers, had it done so it would've caused "millions of dollars in damage, and possibly shut down operations for a week."


Fannie Mae is a government-sponsored mortgage lender. Makwana, 35, was indicted for "unauthorized computer access" this past Tuesday in a Maryland District Court, though he is currently free on $100,000 bail after surrendering his passport. Makwana's public defender told reporters he would enter a plea of "not guilty" today, but did not comment further.

According to an FBI affidavit by the Unix engineer who found Makwana's alleged work, "The malicious script [called only 'SK'] was at the bottom of the legitimate script, separated by approximately one page of blank lines, apparently in an effort to hide the malicious script within the legitimate script."

As a result, the script was removed immediately and a lockdown of all Fannie Mae servers was ordered to prevent additional hostile access.

Makwana allegedly used a Fannie Mae laptop computer, which had been assigned IP address 172.17.38.29, to gain root access to the system and implant the script. This is how the senior Unix engineer was able to discover who may have inserted it.

If convicted, Makwana faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.



HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — A fired Fannie Mae contract worker pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges he planted a virus designed to destroy all the data on the mortgage giant's 4,000 computer servers nationwide, according to federal prosecutors.

If the virus had been released as planned on Saturday, the Justice Department said the disruption could have cost millions of dollars and shut down operations for a week at the largest U.S. mortgage finance company.

Rajendrasinh B. Makwana, 35, of Glen Allen, Va., pleaded not guilty Friday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to one count of computer intrusion, the U.S. attorney's office said.

Makwana's federal public defender did not immediately return a call seeking comment on the allegation.

Makwana, a citizen of India, was fired early on the afternoon of Oct. 24 from his job at Fannie Mae's data center in Urbana, about 35 miles from the company's Washington headquarters, according to court records. An affidavit states he was fired for erroneously writing programming instructions two weeks earlier that changed the settings on high-speed computers called servers that are connected to multiple network users.

Before surrendering his Fannie Mae badge and laptop computer at the end of the day Oct. 24, Makwana "intentionally and without authorization caused and attempted to cause damage to Fannie Mae's computer network by entering malicious code," according to an indictment returned Tuesday.

The code, if executed this Saturday as planned, "would have resulted in destroying and altering all of the data on Fannie Mae servers," the indictment states.

According to the affidavit signed by FBI Special Agent Jessica A. Nye Jan. 6, a Fannie Mae engineer discovered the malicious instructions by chance Oct. 29. The programming instructions were removed that day and did no harm, according to the affidavit.

Had the virus been released, "it would have caused millions of dollars of damage and reduced if not shut down operations" for at least a week, Nye wrote.

The damage would have included cleaning out and restoring all 4,000 servers, restoring and securing the automation of mortgages and restoring all data that was erased, the FBI agent wrote.

The charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

Makwana was arrested Jan. 7 and released on $100,000 bond Jan. 8, according to court records.

Fannie Mae is the largest U.S. mortgage finance company. It owns or guarantees about $3 trillion in home loans.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both publicly traded, were created by Congress to inject money into the home-loan market by purchasing mortgages and bundling them into securities for sale to investors. Both were taken over by their government regulator in September after mounting mortgage losses put them in distress.