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Subject:    [ISN] Employee hijacked CEO's PowerPoint to show porn
From:       InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date:       2011-06-23 6:50:56
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1106222350430.3580 () infosecnews ! org
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http://news.techworld.com/security/3287556/employee-hijacked-ceos-powerpoint-to-show-porn/

By John E Dunn
Techworld
22 June 11

An angry employee who hacked his boss's PowerPoint presentation so that 
it showed a pornographic image has been given a two-year suspended 
prison sentence and 100 hours of community service by a Judge in the US.

The embarrassing event happened in September 2009 as the Baltimore 
Substance Abuse Systems (BSAS) CEO, Greg Warren, was giving a 
presentation on a 64-inch screen to city officials on his organisation's 
programs to help drug rehabilitation in the Maryland city.

Suddenly, the PC shut down and the image of a naked woman appeared on 
the screen, planted there remotely it later turned out by 52 year-old 
Walter Powell, an IT support manager fired only days earlier by BSAS.

Powell was said to have used his access to the organisation's systems to 
plant a keylogger which helped him to steal the passwords of at least 
five other BCAS employees as they worked. Over a 32-day period, Power 
accessed the BSAS network over 100 times, it was reported.

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