March 8, 2025
Developer sabotaged ex-employer IT systems with kill switch • The Register
A federal jury in Cleveland has found a senior software developer guilty of sabotaging his employer’s systems – and he’s now facing a potential ten years behind bars. Davis Lu, 55, of Houston, Texas, was a seasoned coder employed by power-management biz Eaton Corporation between November 2007 to October 2019. In his last year with the outfit, there was a corporate restructuring and he was demoted, both in terms of job responsibilities and server access. On August 9, 2019 Lu began introducing home-designed malware onto at least one of his employer’s production systems. He wrote a Java program that would,