I read that he used credentials from an ex-coworker who still worked there.
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Sherry Abercrombie <[email protected]>wrote: > What I find amazing is that the fired employee's account wasn't disabled > immediately upon termination. Sheesh, talk about asking for trouble..... > > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Mike French < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 46. March 17, Wired – (Texas) Hacker disables more than 100 cars >> remotely. More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled >> or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a >> web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention >> of consumers delinquent in their auto payments. Police with Austin’s High >> Tech Crime Unit on March 17 arrested a 20-year-old who was a former Texas >> Auto Center employee who was laid off last month, and allegedly sought >> revenge by bricking the cars sold from the dealership’s four Austin-area >> lots. The dealership used a system called Webtech Plus as an alternative to >> repossessing vehicles that haven’t been paid for. Operated by >> Cleveland-based Pay Technologies, the system lets car dealers install a >> small black box under vehicle dashboards that responds to commands issued >> through a central website, and relayed over a wireless pager network. The >> dealer can disable a car’s ignition system, or trigger the horn to begin >> honking, as a reminder that a payment is due. The system will not stop a >> running vehicle. Texas Auto Center began fielding complaints from baffled >> customers the last week in February, many of whom wound up missing work, >> calling tow trucks or disconnecting their batteries to stop the honking. The >> troubles stopped five days later, when Texas Auto Center reset the Webtech >> Plus passwords for all its employee accounts, says the manager of Texas Auto >> Center. Then police obtained access logs from Pay Technologies, and traced >> the saboteur’s IP address to the suspect’s AT&T internet service, according >> to a police affidavit filed in the case. Source: >> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/hacker-brickscars/? >> utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+wired/index >> +(Wired:+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2<http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/hacker-brickscars/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+wired/index+%28Wired:+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2>)) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *Mike French >> **Network Engineer >> **~**EQUITY BANK <http://www.theequitybank.com/>* >> Office: 214.231.4565 >> <[email protected]>[email protected] >> >> *"Evidently excellence in security by some ** >> security-centric vendors is defined as being the head of the class in a >> room filled with children without a propensity to learn." - Anonymous* >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Sherry Abercrombie > > "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." > Arthur C. Clarke > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
