The court first rejected the government's argument that "the information of the Philippine `love bug' should fall in the classification of just general common knowledge." In Gilsenan, we did not believe "that the allegedly prejudicial information could have had an impact on the verdict" where the jurors were exposed to that information at the outset of a six-week trial. The Lloyd case was the first federal criminal prosecution of computer sabotage. Government witnesses testified at trial that they hoped this change in positions would cause Lloyd to improve his behavior, but it had the opposite effect and his interpersonal problems increased. at 906-907. messages on alt.sex. ^ a b c Gaudin, Sharon. Omega Engineering is a company providing sensing and connectivity solutions in the process measurement and control industry. numbers for their own use. Olson characterized a string of commands entitled "FUSE.EXE" as a "time bomb" because anyone who attempted to log on to the server on any date after July 30, 1996 would detonate the program and cause a massive deletion of data. One researcher traced the rise of "hacktivism"--the use of technology and We presume that juries follow such instructions. The Most Risky Job Ever. Reporting on ISIS in Afghanistan. The Citibank case marks the hacker community's first foray into big-money In response, the defense argued to the jury that the government's case was based on a series of assumptions that could not be proven. However, no one ever argued at trial that Lloyd committed the act of sabotage by remote access. According to police, mafiaboy boasted According to published reports, Lloyd was fired in 1996 because he was unable to get along with his co-workers. at 909, we are not willing to overturn the court's finding. The attacks The company, whose headquarters are in Stamford, Conn., makes components that measure and control temperature, pressure, flow and humidity for clients like the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the United States Navy. been estimated at nearly $400 million. It deleted all of the company's design and production programs. in January 1998, he admitted using passwords and codes stolen from Citibank had seen a news story about the "Love Letter" worm and its attendant havoc and For more accounts of notorious hacks, see the Discovery Channel's "Hackers Hall According to Grady O'Malley of the U.S. Attorney's Office, the juror had seen a news story about the "Love Letter" worm and its attendant havoc and couldn't decide whether the story had had an effect on her decision to convict Lloyd. Most significant is the fact that the story of the "Love Bug" virus, as explained earlier, is entirely unrelated to the facts and the theories of this case. hastily laid phone lines, laptops, modems, and other gear to disseminate Agency (NSA) computer security expert, wrote 99 lines of code and released them web site copyright 1995-2014 The government's theory at trial was that Lloyd was an uncooperative, obstructionist, and belligerent employee who sabotaged Omega's computer network by "planting" a "time bomb" prior to his firing on July 10, 1996, set to detonate on July 31, 1996. Unlike the information in Console, we are not faced with direct contact between a juror and a third-party. Similarly, McPoyle acknowledged on cross-examination that at least seven Omega employees had supervisory-level access to the network. Citibank Three days after the jury returned its verdict, on May 12, 2000, Francis Simpson, Juror No. One such group of activists labeled themselves the Electronic Disturbance Therefore, our analysis must proceed further. Was he guilty? To date, most computer sabotage cases have been handled internally, and not legally, because of the potential embarrassment. According to published reports, Citibank's security system flagged two law defines as a computer that is used exclusively by the federal government or Id. in internet chat rooms about the attacks and was tracked through traces he left Some weeks after he had been terminated, he never having been allowed to return to that employment, the system crashed. activists. card numbers and personal information about customers and created telephone Moreover, the defense put before the jury Ferguson's strong recommendation of Lloyd to W.L. Based on the theories of guilt and innocence presented at trial and the evidence presented at trial as well as the evidence presented to support those theories, it is highly improbable that the hypothetical average juror would apply the remote-access theory presented in the "Love Bug" story to Lloyd's alleged sabotage of Omega's network.2 The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit concluded in a similar case that " [b]ecause the [extraneous information] was not logically connected to material issues in the case to find a material connection between the extraneous information and the jury's verdict would require an assumption that the jury members reached an irrational conclusion. In September 1995, Lloyd received Novell training, obtained Novell certification, and installed the Novell computer network onto Omega's computer system. racking up $200,000 in bills. S 3731. [7] It has sales offices in the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, China, Brazil, Singapore, Korea, Japan, and Mexico. On July 31, 1996, Ferguson learned that the file server on Omega's computer system would not boot up. at 601-602. In particular, we have tended to apply the presumption of prejudice when a juror is directly contacted by third- parties. 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Tim Lloyd, 39, of Wilmington Del., must now surrender to the U.S. Federal Court May 6. S 1030(a) (5) (A) (criminalizing "knowingly caus [ing] the transmission of a program, information, code or command, and, as a result of such conduct, intentionally caus [ing] damage, without authorization, to a protected computer") and 18 U.S.C. See Gilsenan, 949 F.2d at 95. newspapers as the mastermind behind the internet's first-ever bank raid. In order to submit an RFQ (Request for Quote) a 2-D drawing with dimensions and tolerances and a 3-D model are required. Lloyd was tried by a jury in the District Court for the District of New Jersey from April 19, 2000 to May 9, 2000. Altogether more than 1,200 Omega programs were lost and, according to government witnesses, not one of the individual computers had backups on their individual hard drives -- allegedly because of the "clean up" policy implemented by Lloyd in late June 1996. See 170 F.3d at 394. at 601-602. Suite 200 Brea, CA 92821 Main 714-996-8760 Fax 714-996-8755 Email sales@aosolutions.com attack can be orchestrated from a remote location. Both Hackett and Greg Olson, Ontrack's director of worldwide data recovery services whom the government describes as "the world's foremost expert in Novell networking," Br. The Phonemasters case is the first time that Title III of the Omnibus Crime After three days of deliberation, the jury found Lloyd guilty of computer sabotage but acquit-ted him on a second charge of interstate transporta-tion of stolen goods. However, the Br. denies such claims and evidence to the contrary has never surfaced. Id. United States v. Gilsenan, 949 F.2d 90, 95 (3d Cir. at 916, 918, 921. The Phonemasters reportedly forwarded an FBI phone line to a sex-chat line, In your eyes, what kind of liability or culpability, if any, did Omega Engineering have in this case? southernmost state in Mexico an autonomous region for the indigenous Mayan The government's theory of the case was that Lloyd, an Omega employee, planted a computer "time bomb" in the central file server of Omega's computer network while employed there, and that the "time bomb" detonated after he was fired from the company. a) risk b) threat c) exploit d) control 2. at 922. App. See id. file named "list.zip." The defense also contested the government's evidence regarding Lloyd's alleged "clean up" policy. in southern Mexico. Ernesto Zedillo, however, reportedly buckled and crashed under the pressure of the 18,000 protestors who launched FloodNet. Ultimately resulting in deleting the software that ran their manufacturing systems, costing $2 million in repairs, $10 million in revenue and 80 employees beeing laid off. Thanks for your replies, and have a great day. of unauthorized access devices and unauthorized access to a federal computer. The victims, who had expected list.zip to contain On May 9, 2000, Timothy Lloyd was convicted of writing six lines of code--essentially, a code "bomb"--that obliterated Omega Engineering Corporation's design and production programs. hacking skills to achieve social or political ends--to the Zapatista rebels App. On July 31, 1996, a logic bomb was triggered on the server for Omega Engineering's manufacturing operations, had committed the largest ever act of worker-related computer sabotage, causing Robert Hackett, Ontrack's Remote Data Recovery Operations Supervisor, testified at trial that "issu [ing a] `delete' would be similar to someone just taking a piece of paper and putting it into the trash bin, [but] issuing a `purge,' that is going to take what's in the trash bin, shred it into very small pieces, and throw [ ] them all up in the air." hacked into the computer systems of several companies and downloaded calling Omega Engineering, Inc. 26904 Network Place Chicago, IL 60673-1269: Payments by Wire Transfer (203) 359-1660 (Mon-Fri. 8am to 5pm EST) Payments can also be made via the BillPay Plus Portal: W-9 Form: W-9 Download: ISO Certification: ISO-9001: Corporate Status: Large Business, incorporated in Delaware. In contrast, the prejudicial extraneous information delivered to the jury in the midst of deliberations in Waldorf and Mayhue was either related directly to the case or dealt with a factually similar set of circumstances. )Q*$PzxiQhzP^OFznS{\m+`*],Uej5A"I-E6{y>G}H}\5AIl1 NU_Z2h0(E',{Fr%'|3#5a_6|\79`O.fg%VQo\{t8*aG(mOmi&#XtLH3z dt=6vO@0[OI-h|mP|O!2S9i>4Z'2zh>4 gP`i;\H%Y7;QfK&*TZc/m9=N^`B#~5m QMeeh#^H}L WhZ. customers to make transfers to his accounts. P. 52(a), and the fact that several jurors in this case "had never even used a computer," App. Simpson testified that on the last day of deliberations -- the first day following media reports of the "Love Bug" virus -- the jury did not discuss the "Love Bug" at all during the actual deliberations. Simpson also testified that she and the other jurors did not discuss the story of the "Love Bug" during deliberations, although she admitted to asking other jurors whether they had heard the story. Lloyd knew Omega's systems well. The attacks may have been avoidable. First, the defense tried to refute the government's evidence that Lloyd was a belligerent and uncooperative employee. He was apprehended in London at Heathrow Airport in March 1995. We concluded that such deliberate care suggested that the extraneous information did not prejudice the jury. SS 2314 and 2. Omega Man: The Implosion of Tim Lloyd In document Tangled Web Tales of Digital Crime from the Shadows of Cyberspace pdf (Page 196-200) In the 2000 CSI/FBI survey, 28 respondents were able to quantify financial losses from incidents involving sabotage of data or networks for a total of $27,148,000. at 500. In January 1998, Levin pled guilty in federal court We review a district court's grant of a motion for a new trial as well as its investigation of extraneous information for an abuse of discretion. Lloyd was convicted in May 2000 of planting a software time bomb in a centralized file server at Omega. Thus, it is unlikely that the average hypothetical juror would have been influenced by such unrelated information. John McPoyle, also trained in Novell, also failed to recover any Omega files. One of the government's computer experts explained that supervisory access "means that [an] account has full access to everything on the server." Thus, a court may inquire into the verdict if " `extraneous prejudicial information was improperly brought to the jury's attention or [if] any outside influence was improperly brought to bear upon any juror.' Traditionally, appellate courts give considerable deference to a district court's examination of the prejudicial effect of extraneous information on a jury's verdict. at 758. of political interaction is being rewritten, thanks in part to the internet. Government witnesses testified to Lloyd's workplace behavior and even an expert testified that the same program that allegedly caused the "purge" of all the network files was also present on the hard drive of a computer found at Lloyd's home. William H. Walls, the judge who presided over the case, told Lloyd, "What you did not only affected the company but the people who worked there. OMEGA Engineering. 949 F.2d at 96. Get free summaries of new Third Circuit US Court of Appeals opinions delivered to your inbox! Please keep in mind, that the City of Brea is closed on alternate Fridays as shown on this calendar. They And during argument, the trial judge repeatedly cautioned counsel that he was unconcerned with the subjective effect the information had on Simpson. in Bridgeport, New Jersey, logged on to a computer terminal. *0Lrhu u/gtOH/G0)i!= The Omega Engineering Logic Bomb An example of a logic bomb that was actually triggered and caused damage is one that programmer Tim Lloyd was convicted of using on his former employer, Omega Engineering Corporation. at 229. To start, it is obvious that, for there to be any possibility of prejudice, the extraneous information must relate to one of the elements of the case that was decided against the party moving for a new trial. officials track the illegal fund transfers to St. Petersburg and finally to Sealed App. Temperature Connectors, Panels and Block Assemblies, Temperature and Humidity and Dew Point Meters, High Accuracy Sanitary Pressure Transducers, Tuning Fork Sensors detect levels of liquids, Electronic Pressure Switch Display + Alarms, Wireless IIoT Smart Environmental Sensors, Web-based Environmental Monitoring and Recording, Sanitary, Rangeable, Pressure Transmitters with Display, 21CFR Compliant USB Data Loggers for Vaccines, Single use Cold Chain PDF Temperature Logger. 1984); United States v. Hillard, 701 F.2d 1052, 1064 (2d Cir. On July 31, 1996, the malicious software code destroyed the programs that ran the company's . In Waldorf, the extraneous information was a media report of a $30 million verdict in a similar but unrelated personal injury case, "the very same type of information the district court had excluded as inadmissible." "It had a catastrophic effect on the company. was replicating and infecting machines at a much faster rate than he had The government immediately pointed the court to Federal Rule of Evidence 606(b) and recommended it conduct an informal in camera inquiry of the juror to determine whether she had been subject to extraneous information that prejudiced her. at 67. An employee in the human resources department at W.L. App. See Gilsenan, 949 F.2d at 96 (finding noteworthy that the jury was exposed to the extraneous information "after the jury was instructed to decide the case on the basis only of the evidence and not extrinsic information, an instruction the jury is presumed to have followed"). In the next few days, Buy.com, eBay, CNN, crashing or becoming unresponsive to commands. Beverage sensing requires strict hygenic standards and accurate sensing to deliver safe and delicious beverages. The tag provided investigators with information on the App. omega.com. The defense further argued that Omega's written policy against working at home had never been enforced. He will be sentenced in April 2001, and could spend up to two years in Nevertheless, she admitted to asking "some jurors" if they had heard the story over the weekend, and they said they did, but the jurors "didn't discuss it, we mentioned it." The government argues that the "Love Bug" story cannot be prejudicial because it is part of "the jurors' generalized knowledge about the parties, or some other aspect of the case." And the percentage is probably even higher than that because most insider attacks go undetected. App. The jurors were individually polled and they each reaffirmed agreement with the verdict. 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