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Employees Fired After Reporting Security Breach
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:32:29 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.wpbf.com/mostpopular/20552910/detail.html WPBF.com August 25, 2009 LAKE WORTH, Fla. -- When Andres Reyes and Howard Jordan sit down at a table, they have more than 60 years of power grid experience between them. So when the Lake Worth Utilities employees noticed an unauthorized computer plugged into the power system's mainframe on two separate occasions, they knew they had a problem. "If you turn it off, then somebody can come in and do all kinds of things to the electric system," said Reyes, "as bad as you can turn off the complete power grid to the state of Florida." Worried, they took their concerns to everyone they could think of. Last month, they appeared before the city commission. They said they eventually gave interviews to the FBI and Department of Homeland Security. Then on Friday, they said, they were fired. [...] ________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.org
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