Insider Logic Bombs

Add to the "not very smart criminals" file: According to court documents, Tinley provided software services for Siemens' Monroeville, PA offices for nearly ten years. Among the work he was asked to perform was the creation of spreadsheets that the company was using to manage equipment orders. The...

Siemens Contractor Pleads Guilty to Planting 'Logic Bomb' in Spreadsheets

A former Siemens contractor has pledged guilty in federal court Friday to secretly planting code in automated spreadsheets he had created for the company over a decade ago that deliberately crashes the program every few years. David Tinley, a 62-year-old resident of Harrison City, Pennsylvania, w...

Report: Reused, Third Party Code Major Sources of Insecurity

A new report out from security testing firm Veracode suggests that reused and third party code is a big source of application insecurity. Application security is a sore spot for many organizations, as attackers shift the battlefield from operating system and network attacks to application specifi...