I wonder if we can do this with our phone systems. - PBX Info :: Your Free PBX, PABX and Telephone Information Resource

**rixride** · 06-09-2006, 09:57 AM

It would be nice if I didn't get my 50,000 raise, I guess I would try the same thing too.

==================

Man accused of crashing UBS servers

Bonus sedition

By John Oates
A US court has heard how a disgruntled IT manager allegedly wiped out all UBS Paine Webber servers for a day leaving traders unable to trade because he was unhappy with his bonus.
Not only is Roger Duronio accused of using a "logic bomb" to crash the investment bank's servers he is also accused of going short on UBS shares just before the incident - so if UBS shares fell in value Duronio would make a profit. UBS yesterday asked the judge to keep the trial secret to avoid embarrassment and injury to the bank - the judge refused. if
Roger Duronio was paid a salary of $125,000 by the bank and was expecting a bonus of $50,000. When he only got $32,000 he decided to take revenge on the bank, prosecutors claim.
He created the logic bomb which would delete all the files in the host server in the central data centre and then every server in every branch.
Some 2,000 servers did go down and 400 branch offices were hit. Backup systems did not work and files were deleted.
UBS IT manager Elvira Maria Rodriguez told the court: "It was the magnitude of it. How on earth were we going to bring them all back up?...If I had a scale of 1 to 10 this would be a 10-plus."
She told the court the escalation centre was "chaos" on the day and that 200 IBMers had to be drafted in to help fix problems at branch offices.
Duronio's defence attorney said the code was planted as a joke by someone else. He accused UBS, and its first forensics company @Stake of destroying evidence.

***John_In_Dakota*** · 06-09-2006, 12:32 PM

Note to self: What would happen if say all the DNIS digits were routed to say some escorted service instead of our work place? Keep this in mind when reviews come around...

**rixride** · 06-09-2006, 01:03 PM

lol I like your diabolical thinking

Ok what is the worse case scenerio for debiliating a phone system, hypothetically of course because we all would never do it in real life.

I guess there could be a way to do a denial of service attack, if you could spawn enough calls to one site...
or
route all calls back to a overseas fraud number....

slagburn · 06-09-2006, 05:19 PM

format the back up disks, monkey with a few files on the hard drives and reload it - boom done - next site.

of course one would need access to certain passwords and a few other things; smart admins have changed those passwords from the default and keep changing them on a regular basis so as to keep management confused about which ones are current. (only because management keeps sharing those passwords with people who don't need them) this admin might also be the only one in his group who knows who to change those key passwords so should he leave under less than favorable terms it would be at least a week of sleepless nights for management wondering what might happen while they try to figure out the passwords or the procedure to reset them.

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes	Rate This Thread
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode	Rate This Thread:

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Resetting your ESI phone system’s clock	rixride	ESI	0	03-24-2006 10:22 AM
VoIP Phone Systems Buyer's Guide	rixride	VOIP Talk	3	02-17-2006 12:44 PM
VoIP - Plan A vs Plan B	FreedomFireCom	VOIP Talk	0	05-19-2005 09:42 AM
....VoIP Phone Advantages & Drawbacks....	FreedomFireCom	VOIP Talk	0	01-21-2005 01:51 PM

Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)