According to documents filed in the US District Court for Maryland, a Fannie Mae worker who had been terminated attempted to: …cause damage to Fannie Mae’s computer network by entering malicious code that was intended to execute on January 31, 2009. The worker was a contractor who worked at Fannie Mae’s data center in Urbana, […]

There continues to be talk of computer “hackers” who work from remote terminals to tap into data centers and take information or ruin data. However, a survey by the American Bar Association found that 77% of criminals came from within. The most frequently cited group for stealing or damaging company data were computer programmers. “Hackers […]