The attacks See Gilsenan, 949 F.2d at 95-96 (not applying presumption of prejudice to media coverage of failed plea agreement in the case); United States v. D'Andrea, 495 F.2d 1170, 1172 n.5 (3d Cir. The Melissa virus spread like a cancerous chain letter, exploiting a hole in He also received a 4% raise, which was lower than his 7.2% raise in 1993, 4.6% raise in 1994, and 4.92% raise in 1995. Nevertheless, Lloyd's jury still returned a fractured verdict (guilty on count 1, not guilty on count 2) and its deliberations lasted three days, proportionately analogous to the length of deliberations and structure of verdict in Gilsenan. an extensive investigation that involved Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Colorado, It stands for the proposition that someone from thousands of miles away can, by his or her actions, trigger efforts that will have an effect on distant computer systems. Apparently he was counseled on several occasions about these problems, but never improved his behavior. Ernesto Zedillo, however, reportedly buckled and crashed under the pressure of the 18,000 protestors who launched FloodNet. How to test a thermocouple with a meter (grounded & ungrounded). He was apprehended in London at Heathrow Airport in March 1995. See United States v. Console, 13 F.3d 641, 666 (3d Cir. The court then questioned as to the subjective effect of this information, and she stated that she learned that it was possible for the person who set off the "Love Bug" virus to affect computers worldwide, and thought that it was possible for Lloyd to have triggered the "time bomb" in the Omega computer system without having direct physical access to the computer server at the time. at 916, 918, 921. On July 31, 1996, all its design and production computer programs were permanently deleted. Inasmuch as a portion of the District Court's questions and the juror's responses were not admissible under Rule 606(b), we limit our inquiry to the portion of the colloquy that was admissible, i.e., the juror's declarations detailing the nature and existence of the extraneous information. Lloyd, a former network administrator at Omega Engineering Corp., thought he had not only destroyed his former. ''The reality is that managers significantly underestimate the potential information-technology-related risks that are attributable to insiders.''. 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. Finally, in The government contended that Lloyd knew he was going to get fired because he had been demoted, had been written-up, and had received a lower-than-expected performance review and raise, and that his motive was revenge. App. It deleted all of the company's design and production programs. Luckily, AOL "tagged" the newsgroup postings on its servers, including the 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. It was July 31, In too many cases, said Professor Bashein of California State University, companies have tried to rush new employees into their jobs without giving them adequate training in corporate ethics. This secession sparked a rebellion that is still being waged Tim Lloyd wiped the computers at Omega Engineering in New Jersey after he was fired. According to police, mafiaboy boasted Lloyd knew pled guilty to 56 charges, including mischief and illegal use of a computer Cold storage is critical for transportation of pharmaceuticals, food & beverage, and other applications that require continuous monitoring. Accordingly, having found no evidence to suggest that Lloyd was prejudiced substantially by a juror's exposure to the story of the "Love Bug" virus, we conclude that the District Court abused its discretion in granting a new trial. [7] It has sales offices in the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, China, Brazil, Singapore, Korea, Japan, and Mexico. The morning of July 31, 1996, the first worker in the door at Omega Engineering's manufacturing plant in Bridgeport, N.J., logged on to his computer and unwittingly detonated a software time bomb that systematically eradicated all the programs that ran the company's manufacturing operations. at 679. at 66. Gore. targeted system so busy that it can't handle its normal workload. One such group of activists labeled themselves the Electronic Disturbance In your eyes, what kind of liability or culpability, if any, did Omega Engineering have in this case? anticipated. The defense further sought to refute the government's emphasis on the amount of Omega property recovered from Lloyd's home by pointing out that Lloyd often brought work home with him while employed at Omega, and that his supervisors knew this. Since Omega makes components for clients such as NASA and the U.S. Navy, those systems were the company's rainmakers. But hacks were still more of an annoyance than anything devastating, though it was quickly becoming apparent . Charles Mangarella, another defense witness, even testified that he thought Lloyd's change in positions was a "promotion." at 907. While Citibank spokespeople have 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. Though the Melissa virus reportedly caused nearly $400 million in damages, and on EDT's web site, participants in the online "sit-in" were instructed to messages on alt.sex. As this court recently discussed in Wilson, we do not permit jurors to impeach their own verdicts. That same day Lloyd told representatives of W.L. Lloyd. United States v. Thornton, 1 F.3d 149, 156 (3d Cir. found guilty of unauthorized access to a "federal interest computer," which the App. Craig Chamberlain Security Do-er. For more accounts of notorious hacks, see the Discovery Channel's "Hackers Hall His performance was rated a `7' on a scale of 1 to 10, which meant "often exceeds expectations." This court previously has found relevant the length of the jury's deliberations and the structure of its verdict. A 606(b)). at 67. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Newark filed an appeal. External sites are not endorsed by CNN Interactive. and agreed to causing nearly $80 million in damages. https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/18/nyregion/man-charged-with-sabotage-of-computers.html. Similarly, in Boylan, the First Circuit refused to apply the presumption of prejudice to a magazine article linking the defense attorney to the mob, in part, because the article "did not refer to the case, the trial, the defendants, or their activities." Lloyd was convicted in May of 2000 of planting a software time bomb in a centralized file server at Omega Engineering's Bridgeport, New Jersey, manufacturing plant. a) risk b) threat c) exploit d) control 2. A jury convicted Timothy Lloyd on one count of computer sabotage, a violation of federal law. had Madonna's home phone number, they could hack into the FBI's national crime 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. Timothy Lloyd, 30, of Wilmington, Delaware, was charged in US District Court with intentionally damaging a computer system maintained by his former employer, Omega Engineering Inc. Lloyd is . It was July 31, 1996, the date that the bomb was set to detonate. John Bosanac got Omega's systems well. It further contends that only Lloyd had each of these necessary skills and the necessary access to commit this crime. "Case Study of Insider Sabotage: The Tim Lloyd/OMEGA Case" (PDF). However, the conviction was short-lived. Likewise, we shall not apply the presumption of prejudice to this case. Equifax credit reporters. researcher dubbed "The Zapatista Effect," which suggests that the very nature The government further argued to the jury that whoever committed the act of sabotage needed direct supervisory-level access to the Omega network as well as advanced computer programming skills, and that only Lloyd had both the requisite access and skills. After During a brief appearance yesterday in Federal District Court in Newark, Mr. Lloyd pleaded innocent to two counts -- intentionally causing irreparable damage to Omega's computer system, and also to stealing about $50,000 worth of computer equipment and taking it across state lines to his home in Wilmington, Del. them to the suspect's house. computer systems. Thomas Inglin, one of the programmers trained in Novell networks, testified that the files had been deleted and "purged," i.e., rendered unusable and unrecoverable. Exchange, the Pentagon, and the web site for Mexican President Ernest Zedillo federal sentencing guidelines allow for a maximum of $80 million in damages. On July 30, 1996, the bomb went off after a co-worker switched on a computer terminal. /vcT]9C"L/?[pjn2YNs!51>%\qEI$bd"9kE=)o{m^:-Vy ` L Gore & Associates as evidence of his expectation of an upcoming departure from Omega. The Melissa virus, however, was rapacious; damages have Citibank's system and made more illegal transfers. On July 10, Ferguson and DiFrancesco met with Lloyd and informed him of his termination. Contact Us Alpha Omega Solutions, Inc. 1800 E. Lambert Rd. We need to deter others in this increasingly computerized world and economy. Id. Agency (NSA) computer security expert, wrote 99 lines of code and released them ordered him to pay Citibank $240,000. We also review for abuse of discretion a district court's finding on whether the extraneous information prejudiced the defendant. Thus, the defense argued to the jury that numerous other Omega employees had the requisite supervisory-level access to commit the act of sabotage. Citibank When Levin was extradited to the U.S. in 1997, he was described in the As an opinion from the Sixth Circuit recently stated, " [i]f courts were to permit a lone juror to attack a verdict through an open-ended narrative concerning the thoughts, views, statements, feelings, and biases of herself and all other jurors sharing in that verdict, the integrity of the American jury system would suffer irreparably." Three days after the jury returned its verdict, on May 12, 2000, Francis Simpson, Juror No. alert that two distributed denial-of-service tools had already been installed In February 2000, some of the internet's most reliable sites were rendered Tim Lloyd, 39, of Wilmington Del., must now surrender to the U.S. Federal Court May 6. Though the rebels are under constant surveillance by the authorities, they use at 794-796 (pointing the jury to the testimony at trial as well as documents and other physical items submitted into evidence). expected by late March 2001. 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. of Appellant at 18, testified at trial that this "purge" was intentional, and only someone with supervisory-level access to the network could have accomplished such a feat. The Most Risky Job Ever. Reporting on ISIS in Afghanistan. While Omega continued in its attempts to recover this lost data, Ferguson searched for backup tapes that had been made. ''The myth is that companies have to protect themselves against outside hackers, but this is not the reality,'' said Barbara J. Bashein, professor of information systems at California State University at San Marcos. 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. at 585. A jury convicted Timothy Lloyd on one count of computer sabotage, a violation of federal law. On July 31, 1996, a logic bomb was triggered on the server for Omega Engineering's manufacturing operations, In contrast, the jurors in this case dealt with only one defendant, two counts, and a two-week trial. We are only concerned with the probable effect the extraneous information would have on the hypothetical average juror, and not with the actual subjective effect the information had on Simpson. to the networks, he conceded that he did intend to gain access to the affected file named "list.zip." Experts said that email infected by Melissa Id. was the first incident of its kind to affect the newly commercial internet. Omega nearly $10 million in lost sales. )Q*$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. And the percentage is probably even higher than that because most insider attacks go undetected. The defense further argued that Omega's written policy against working at home had never been enforced. It is the party seeking the new trial, here Lloyd, who bears the burden of demonstrating the likelihood of prejudice. database.". at 710-11. The defense further suggested that Lloyd's problems at work primarily were due to his estranged relationship with Walsh, which had soured in early 1995. See United States v. Maree, 934 F.2d 196, 201 (9th Cir. All of this strongly suggests that Lloyd's jury undertook its duties with considerable care and diligence, increasing the likelihood that the "Love Bug" story did not prejudice Lloyd. 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. First, the communications are so, they served as propagators of the virus. See 3 F.3d at 713 (also finding relevant the fact that the "information was precisely the type specifically excluded by the district court during trial"). The firing was effective immediately and Lloyd was quickly escorted from the premises. 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. AOL's servers had served as a conduit for the virus, which was contained in a "It had a catastrophic effect on the company. ISIS is in Afghanistan, But Who Are They Really? A new trial is warranted if the defendant likely suffered "substantial prejudice" as a result of the jury's exposure to the extraneous information. The charges were in connection with a 1996 crime that cost Omega Engineering According to published reports, Lloyd was fired in 1996 because he was unable to get along with his co-workers. Agreement went into effect, the Zapatista National Liberation Army declared the Since. After determining where the The Pentagon, which had been alerted to EDT's plans, fought back. destructive "malware." We presume that juries follow such instructions. officials track the illegal fund transfers to St. Petersburg and finally to Industry analysts estimate that in-house security breaches account for 70 to 90 percent of the attacks on corporate computer networks. 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. 1975). Suite 200 Brea, CA 92821 Main 714-996-8760 Fax 714-996-8755 Email sales@aosolutions.com When Levin pled guilty The court repeatedly asked her to explain the actual effect this information had on her vote, but she provided conflicting answers. approximately $1.85 million in business losses. However, in light of the significant dissimilarities between the "Love Bug" and the "time bomb," the court's conclusion that the average juror would "use" the information at all cannot be sustained. 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. computer, it gained access to the Outlook email system and started passwords can also be gleaned from the . It was not exactly clear why Mr. Lloyd was dismissed, but people close to the investigation said that Mr. Lloyd, who is married and has three children, had personal problems with his co-workers. a juvenile detention center. In its written decision, the appellate court found that the media report of the Love Bug was "totally unrelated" to the Lloyd case, the juror hadn't received the information improperly and the government's "heavy volume of incriminating evidence" made the Love Bug information irrelevant to the jury's decision. Timothy Allen Lloyd, 39, was sentenced to prison Wednesday for concocting a computer "time bomb" that deleted programs on his former employer's computer network 20 days after he left high-tech. 1992); United States v. Perkins, 748 F.2d 1519, 1533 (11th Cir. Lloyd's lawyer, Ed Crisonino, said he will appeal the sentence, which also carries with it a three-year probationary period. And, unlike the extraneous information in Waldorf, the "Love Bug" story is both completely unrelated and factually dissimilar to the facts of the case. Nine former Omega employees testified that they never had any problems with Lloyd and that Lloyd was always very professional. Under the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act of 1986, Morris was Citibank was able to recover all but $400,000 of the $10 million that was Tim Lloyd, 39, of Wilmington, Del., must surrender to the U.S. federal court May 6. self-replicating, sending email to as many as 50 correspondents in the user's In the next few days, Buy.com, eBay, CNN, through valid accounts that weren't protected by encryption, there has been at 500. Similarly, McPoyle acknowledged on cross-examination that at least seven Omega employees had supervisory-level access to the network. Get free summaries of new Third Circuit US Court of Appeals opinions delivered to your inbox! Tim Lloyd, a 37-year-old network . The defense also pointed out that the alleged "bad evaluation" actually rated Lloyd above expectations and that the "poor raise" was still a raise and nothing out of the ordinary. See id. App. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. App. . We also require your annual production volume, material preference, and any secondary operations that may be needed in order to provide you with an accurate quote. 1991). author of Tangled Web, a book chronicling tales of digital crime. security experts dispute that claim, however. 3 F.3d at 713. the first hit on February 7, 2000. conviction against Tim Lloyd, 37, of Wilmington, Delaware. In early July 1996, Lloyd had a run-in with Walsh and a female colleague, Arona Mullenback. The story was of "a virus that was believed to have been started in the Philippines, sent by e-mail all over the world which would cause an overload of various computer systems causing them damage, causing them to crash." Mr. Lloyd started working for Omega in 1985, climbing up the ranks to become chief network program designer at the company's manufacturing plant in Bridgeport, about 22 miles southwest of. You may call 714-990-7691 for appointments. We have further recognized that a heavy "volume of incriminating evidence" also can undermine a claim of prejudice. Lloyd, who had worked at Omega for 11 years and became "a trusted member of the family" there, had actually built the computer network that he would later destroy. ''My client denies both charges against him and maintains his innocence.''. The Citibank case marks the hacker community's first foray into big-money One of information to determine the actual telephone that made the call, which led at 921, even though several members of the jury had computer knowledge. Regardless of Mr. Lloyd's fate, computer-law analysts said that companies would do well to monitor the case, and apply lessons to their own firms. Government witnesses testified that normally with Novell networks only one person has supervisory-level access and that that one person at Omega was Lloyd. February 1998 a U.S. judge sentenced Levin to three years in prison, and of the requests from EDT activists were redirected to a Java applet programmed The W.L. 949 F.2d at 96 (also finding other factors significant, including the information's likely benefit to the defendant). FRONTLINE reports from Iraq on the miscalculations and mistakes behind the brutal rise of ISIS. unleashed the aberrant code that instructed the system to delete the software 1987). . OMEGA Engineering. The government contends on appeal that the District Court abused its discretion in granting the defendant's motion for a new trial based on Simpson's testimony about her subjective reaction to extraneous information and that the court's inquiry into her subjective reaction violated Rule 606(b) of the Federal Rules of Evidence. 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. Mayhue, 969 F.2d at 926 (stating that prejudice may be inferred where jury reaches verdict less than three hours after being exposed to extraneous information "despite having been plagued by `irreconcilable differences' the night before"). According to published reports, Citibank's security system flagged two at 423. . a list of sexually oriented web sites along with user ID and password By logging in, the worker unleashed the aberrant code that instructed the system to delete the software running Omega's manufacturing operations. . 1988) (concluding that the presumption of prejudice was overcome by overwhelming evidence of the defendant's guilt). In discussing the "Love Bug" story in the District Court, the prosecutor accurately pointed out that "we are talking about a virus, we are not talking about a time bomb. 1996, the date that the bomb was set to detonate. An increasing number of companies are heeding concerns about that sort of sabotage. See Wilson v. Vermont Castings, Inc., 170 F.3d 391, 394 (3d Cir. Significantly, evidence that went unchallenged included: the string of commands found on the hard drive in Lloyd's home that was identical to that used in the program that purged the Omega network of all its files; the testimony that the "time bomb" had been tested three times previously and that on each occasion Lloyd had stayed late at the office; Lloyd's willingness to accept up to $12,000 less in a job with W.L. 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. Therefore, our analysis must proceed further. at 953. Virgin Islands v. Gereau, 523 F.2d 140, 151 (3d Cir. Included in that equipment, officials said, was a backup tape that could have allowed Omega to recover the lost files. By logging in, the worker See 170 F.3d at 394. On July 31, 1996, a logic bomb was triggered on the server for Omega Engineering's manufacturing operations, The defense's theory was that the massive deletion of files could have resulted from an accident or could have been caused by another employee, either intentionally or unintentionally. at 922. card numbers and personal information about customers and created telephone Sealed App. Thanks for your replies, and have a great day. App. P. 52(a), and the fact that several jurors in this case "had never even used a computer," App. combinations, downloaded the file and ran the program it contained. at 569-571. Nevertheless, " [a] criminal defendant is entitled to a determination of his or her guilt by an unbiased jury based solely upon evidence properly admitted against him or her in court." Sign up for our free summaries and get the latest delivered directly to you. Gore testified that, in the interviews, Lloyd acknowledged that he was willing to accept a salary of $45,000, less than the $57,000 he was receiving from Omega. transactions originated, telecommunications employees in Russia helped U.S. From the time the Morris worm struck the internet until the onset of the A computer programmer who was dismissed from his job at a New Jersey engineering company has been charged with planting a computer ''bomb'' that deleted software critical to the company's operations and caused the loss of more than $10 million in sales and contracts, according to court papers unsealed yesterday. A jury convicted Lloyd of computer sabotage in May 2000. Mr. Lloyd started working for Omega in 1985, climbing up the ranks to become chief network program designer at the company's manufacturing plant in Bridgeport, about 22 miles southwest of Philadelphia. The government argued at trial that the demotion, along with the substandard performance review and raise, indicated to Lloyd that he would soon be fired, thus providing him with the motive to sabotage Omega's computer system. In January 1998, Levin pled guilty in federal court 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. Wired.com's recent "The Greatest Hacks of All Time. Lloyd then interviewed with W.L. Zapatista rebels, the EDT launched a web attack on the Frankfurt Stock in the region today. 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. Prosecutors alleged Lloyd was convicted in May 2000 of planting a software time bomb in a centralized file server at Omega Engineering Inc.'s Bridgeport, New Jersey, manufacturing plant. He was later sentenced to The government must send a message to systems managers and people in trust that there will be a day of reckoning.". . See id. Although defense witnesses contradicted some of the government's assertions regarding those employees with supervisory-level access, Lloyd's likely termination, and his behavior at work, it was up to the jury to assess the credibility of witnesses and choose between the government's and the defendant's view of the evidence. Products to monitor your medical environments, sterilization processes, medicine storage, or analyze fluids. 1982). arrested and charged in connection with the DDoS attacks. Some 1994). In 1996, Tim Lloyd, an 11-year employee of OMEGA and a network administrator within . craigchamberlain.com. Meet the Award-Winning Clamp Temperature Sensor, Our latest innovation for the food and processing industry, Connecting mission-critical sensors and systems, easily paired with the press of a button. officials then contacted the FBI, who tracked Levin as he trespassed on Gore employee also testified that Lloyd had asked at one point that his references at Omega not be contacted for awhile. 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." Some In Wilson, we rejected information as not prejudicial because it related to the question of a defect in a products liability case and the appellant prevailed on that issue at trial. *0Lrhu u/gtOH/G0)i!= exotic dancer he met in Florida. Gore paying $49,000 per year, and he accepted. The jurors were individually polled and they each reaffirmed agreement with the verdict. Sometime between July 23 and July 31, Lloyd was offered a position at W.L. enforcement to intercept wire and oral communications--was interpreted to 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. ; cf. Was he guilty? 949 F.2d at 96. conviction was short-lived. "P&v)>T\eSC,' Whj^vz)9 Citibank, tricking the company's computers into distributing an estimated $10 The government filed a timely notice of appeal. 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