D.C. Law Firm Claims IBM Worker Hacked Its Computers

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via InformationWeek.

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A Washington, D.C. law firm says it's the victim of a computer hacker,
but claims the perpetrator isn't some nerdy cyberpunk of offshore
criminal gang. Rather, the firm says its computers are under attack by
tech giant IBM.

Attorneys at Butera & Andrews claim an unidentified hacker working
within IBM's Websphere services facility in Durham, N.C., secretly
dropped malicious code into the firm's e-mail server, giving him or her
unauthorized access to the system. The IBM worker "initiated, directed
and managed this attack from the Durham, North Carolina facility,"
Butera & Andrews claims in a lawsuit. The firm says its servers were
hit by the assailant's code more than 40,000 times throughout 2005.

In its complaint, originally filed in April in the U.S. District Court
for Washington, D.C., Butera & Andrews gives no motive for the attack.
However, it says it fingered IBM because an IP address traced to the
computer initiating the attacks is registered to a system inside the
IBM facility.

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More:
http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=190400233

- ferg


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