Chinese Developer Jailed for Planting ‘Kill Switch’ at US Company: What Happened—and How to Prevent Insider Threats
If a single line of code could lock thousands of employees out of their systems, would you catch it before it detonated? That’s the unsettling question raised by a recent Department of Justice case in which a longtime software developer deployed malicious code—including a “kill switch”—inside his employer’s network. When his access was later disabled,…