Demoted Delaware man set off computer ``time bomb''

[William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>]

http://www.sjmercury.com/breaking/docs/062060.htm

NEWARK, N.J. (Reuters) - A Delaware man was found guilty in federal
court Tuesday of setting off a computer ``time bomb'' that halted
manufacturing by a high-tech company, causing $10 million in losses,
the U.S. attorney's office for New Jersey said.

A U.S. District Court jury in Newark found Timothy Allen Lloyd, 37,
guilty of unlawfully transmitting a program or command that resulted
in intentionally caused damage to a protected computer. He had been
charged under the 4-year-old National Information Infrastructure
Protection Act

Lloyd acted after being demoted to a nonsupervisory position from the
post of chief network administrator for Omega Engineering Corp. of
Bridgeport, New Jersey, Assistant U.S. Attorney Grady O'Malley said in
a phone interview.

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