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shaggyboarder Wakeboarder.Commie
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Posted: Jan 17, 2013 9:20 am Post subject: brb paging china |
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Security audit finds dev OUTSOURCED his JOB to China to goof off at work
Quote: | Cunning scheme netted him 'best in company' awards
By Iain Thomson in San Francisco
Posted in Business, 16th January 2013 01:29 GMT
A security audit of a US critical infrastructure company last year revealed that its star developer had outsourced his own job to a Chinese subcontractor and was spending all his work time playing around on the internet.
The firm's telecommunications supplier Verizon was called in after the company set up a basic VPN system with two-factor authentication so staff could work at home. The VPN traffic logs showed a regular series of logins to the company's main server from Shenyang, China, using the credentials of the firm's top programmer, "Bob".
"The company's IT personnel were sure that the issue had to do with some kind of zero day malware that was able to initiate VPN connections from Bob's desktop workstation via external proxy and then route that VPN traffic to China, only to be routed back to their concentrator," said Verizon. "Yes, it is a bit of a convoluted theory, and like most convoluted theories, an incorrect one."
After getting permission to study Bob's computer habits, Verizon investigators found that he had hired a software consultancy in Shenyang to do his programming work for him, and had FedExed them his two-factor authentication token so they could log into his account. He was paying them a fifth of his six-figure salary to do the work and spent the rest of his time on other activities.
The analysis of his workstation found hundreds of PDF invoices from the Chinese contractors and determined that Bob's typical work day consisted of:
9:00 a.m. – Arrive and surf Reddit for a couple of hours. Watch cat videos
11:30 a.m. – Take lunch
1:00 p.m. – Ebay time
2:00-ish p.m – Facebook updates, LinkedIn
4:30 p.m. – End-of-day update e-mail to management
5:00 p.m. – Go home
The scheme worked very well for Bob. In his performance assessments by the firm's human resources department, he was the firm's top coder for many quarters and was considered expert in C, C++, Perl, Java, Ruby, PHP, and Python.
Further investigation found that the enterprising Bob had actually taken jobs with other firms and had outsourced that work too, netting him hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit as well as lots of time to hang around on internet messaging boards and checking out the latest Detective Mittens video.
Bob is no longer employed by the firm. ®
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Okie Boarder Ladies Man
Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond
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Posted: Jan 17, 2013 9:52 am Post subject: |
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Arghghh, they foiled his clever scheme. _________________ If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? |
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Faust Wakeboarder.Commie
Joined: 20 May 2005 Posts: 1496
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Posted: Jan 17, 2013 10:00 am Post subject: |
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Very smart.... granted he'll probably never be hired by anyone ever again but he could do well with his own business at this point. |
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shaggyboarder Wakeboarder.Commie
Joined: 09 Nov 2004 Posts: 1631 City: ft. laud.... hook me up with a pull
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Posted: Jan 17, 2013 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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Seems like a pretty innovative dude. Makes me wonder what kind of stuff IT guys can get away with at work. _________________ Random Acts Of Dumbness Will Always Be Rewarded. |
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RampageWake Wakeboarder.Commie
Joined: 23 Jul 2003 Posts: 2002 City: Houston
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Posted: Jan 17, 2013 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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This is too awesome! I love it! _________________
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flixmaster Site Owner
Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 7487
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Posted: Jan 18, 2013 4:49 am Post subject: |
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So the guy will now just start his own development firm. Probably do very well at it. I knew this would happen at some point. _________________ Wakeskating
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pyrocasto PityDaFool Who Posts This Much
Joined: 29 Aug 2003 Posts: 5291 City: hendersonville
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Posted: Jan 18, 2013 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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Funny and crazy! I wonder if I can start doing that with cabinets? I would have to stop doing shop tours then! _________________
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Neognosis Ladies Man
Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 17617 City: Webster
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Posted: Jan 19, 2013 9:51 am Post subject: |
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where I have worked i the past, that's called "Project Management" and gets you promoted. _________________ I walk 47 miles of barb wire, I got a cobra snake for a necktie, a brand new house up on the road side, and it's made out of rattlesnake hide |
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pyrocasto PityDaFool Who Posts This Much
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Posted: Jan 19, 2013 10:06 am Post subject: |
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now theyre probably still outsourcing just cutting out the middle man _________________
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Neognosis Ladies Man
Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 17617 City: Webster
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Posted: Jan 19, 2013 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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Honestly, if this guy could have outsourced his own work to China like that without giving access to the company's intranet, why should he be fired, right?
I mean, I can see him being fired if he violated a security policy, but not for subcontracting his work out. _________________ I walk 47 miles of barb wire, I got a cobra snake for a necktie, a brand new house up on the road side, and it's made out of rattlesnake hide |
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shaggyboarder Wakeboarder.Commie
Joined: 09 Nov 2004 Posts: 1631 City: ft. laud.... hook me up with a pull
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Posted: Jan 22, 2013 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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Neognosis, Maybe he can hire someone from china to take it to court for him as some sort of work study program _________________ Random Acts Of Dumbness Will Always Be Rewarded. |
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