With Novell, Omega was able to place all of its information on a central file server, which acted as a central storage device and allowed all the information on the server to be shared with other computers on the network. First, the defense tried to refute the government's evidence that Lloyd was a belligerent and uncooperative employee. Sealed App. The U.S. District Court judge who tried the case overturned the conviction. The court noted that "a more critical moment would have been difficult to find." at 571-572. Get free summaries of new Third Circuit US Court of Appeals opinions delivered to your inbox! That same day Lloyd told representatives of W.L. /vcT]9C"L/?[pjn2YNs!51>%\qEI$bd"9kE=)o{m^:-Vy ` L Olson characterized a string of commands entitled "FUSE.EXE" as a "time bomb" because anyone who attempted to log on to the server on any date after July 30, 1996 would detonate the program and cause a massive deletion of data. He was apprehended in London at Heathrow Airport in March 1995. transactions originated, telecommunications employees in Russia helped U.S. On New Year's Eve in 1993, the day before the North American Free Trade Tim Lloyd, 39, of Wilmington, Del., must surrender to the U.S. federal court May 6. Gore, which Ferguson claimed at trial was nothing but lies. The U.S. District Court judge who tried the case overturned the The Pentagon, which had been alerted to EDT's plans, fought back. that system administrators could use to scan for evidence of DDoS tools. In this case, that means we must inquire into what extent the "Love Bug" story was shared with the rest of the jury. Equifax credit reporters. Some But various independent studies have found that at least 70 percent of all computer breaches were instigated by a company's own employees, said Michael Overly, a Los Angeles lawyer who specializes in computers. During the course of the trial, the government presented 10 witnesses and the defense presented 10 witnesses. His performance was rated a `7' on a scale of 1 to 10, which meant "often exceeds expectations." Government witnesses also testified that Lloyd had instituted a policy at Omega in late June 1996 to "clean up" all individual computers in Omega's CNC Department. That figure is expected to double this year. The government's principal argument on appeal is that the overwhelming evidence of guilt at trial made the "Love Bug" story insignificant and irrelevant. Levin, they say, used Introducing the HANI Clamp Temperature Sensor from Omega. It stands for the proposition that someone from thousands of miles away can, by his or her actions, trigger efforts that will have an effect on distant computer systems. Citibank The Phonemasters case is the first time that Title III of the Omnibus Crime Bank Tim Lloyd, a 37-year-old network . over 41 months in prison, one of the longest sentences for a hacker in U.S. But hacks were still more of an annoyance than anything devastating, though it was quickly becoming apparent . Exchange, the Pentagon, and the web site for Mexican President Ernest Zedillo Three weeks after Lloyd was fired, a worker at Omega's manufacturing plant five years in prison. Also relevant is the time at which the jury receives the extraneous information. Melissa virus, the internet was relatively free from swift-moving, highly to the networks, he conceded that he did intend to gain access to the affected See Wilson v. Vermont Castings, Inc., 170 F.3d 391, 394 (3d Cir. Though the Melissa virus reportedly caused nearly $400 million in damages, The Omega Engineering Logic Bomb An example of a logic bomb that was actually triggered and caused damage is one that programmer Tim Lloyd was convicted of using on his former employer, Omega Engineering Corporation. Moreover, during deliberations Lloyd's jury asked the court a number of questions and even requested that certain trial testimony be delivered to the jury room. ; see also Console, 13 F.3d at 669 (finding noteworthy the fact that the jury returned two partial verdicts before convicting the defendant on the count seeking reversal). See id. In September 1999, the members of the group were convicted of theft, possession We are talking about something that overloaded circuits in many of the companies, including the Pentagon. In contrast, we tend not to apply the presumption to circumstances in which the extraneous information at issue is a media report, such as a television story or newspaper article. The government contended that Lloyd. Protection Center (NIPC) issued a similar warning and offered free software of Appellant at 47. had seen a news story about the "Love Letter" worm and its attendant havoc and Ultimately, the jury convicted Lloyd on the count of computer sabotage but acquitted him on the count of transportation of stolen goods. Levin. The victims, who had expected list.zip to contain Although defense witnesses contradicted some of the government's assertions regarding those employees with supervisory-level access, Lloyd's likely termination, and his behavior at work, it was up to the jury to assess the credibility of witnesses and choose between the government's and the defendant's view of the evidence. Some He did so after a juror who heard the case approached the court with concerns just days after the guilty verdict was handed in. Finally, in Altogether more than 1,200 Omega programs were lost and, according to government witnesses, not one of the individual computers had backups on their individual hard drives -- allegedly because of the "clean up" policy implemented by Lloyd in late June 1996. Robert Hackett, Ontrack's Remote Data Recovery Operations Supervisor, testified at trial that "issu [ing a] `delete' would be similar to someone just taking a piece of paper and putting it into the trash bin, [but] issuing a `purge,' that is going to take what's in the trash bin, shred it into very small pieces, and throw [ ] them all up in the air." Lloyd's lawyer, Ed Crisonino, said he will appeal the sentence, which also carries with it a three-year probationary period. In no particular order, she told the court that the information about the "Love Bug" had no effect, that she wasn't sure what effect it had, that it changed her vote, and that her decision to change her vote to guilty was more likely due to her willingness to pacify the other jurors. The government argued at trial that the demotion, along with the substandard performance review and raise, indicated to Lloyd that he would soon be fired, thus providing him with the motive to sabotage Omega's computer system. It is apparent from the transcript of the District Court's interview with Simpson that the court's questioning went beyond the scope permitted by Rule 606(b). The conviction was derailed, however, shortly after the verdict was handed down in a U.S. District Court in Newark, New Jersey, when Walls set aside the decision. (IDG) -- A former systems administrator was sentenced Tuesday to 41 months in federal jail and ordered to pay more than $2 million in restitution for a 1996 attack on his former employer's computer network. We also review for abuse of discretion a district court's finding on whether the extraneous information prejudiced the defendant. App. The Omega Engineering Logic Bomb An example of a logic bomb that was actually triggered and caused damage is one that programmer Tim Lloyd was convicted of using on his former employer, Omega Engineering Corporation. Moreover, the defense put before the jury Ferguson's strong recommendation of Lloyd to W.L. a $10,000 fine. convict. couldn't decide whether the story had had an effect on her decision to convict 1987). Agreement went into effect, the Zapatista National Liberation Army declared the It was July 31, Morris, the son of a National Security Although they failed to recover the programs, the Ontrack experts concluded that the programs had been not only deleted but also "purged." Since the virus acted so quickly, many email systems were Its product offering comprises temperature measurement, control and monitoring, test and inspection, data acquisition, pressure measurement, force and strain measurement, and level measurement, including temperature probes, controllers, balances and scales, data loggers . In accordance with this policy, Lloyd moved those portions of computer programs that ask end-users questions about safety precautions from the individual computers to the file server. Gore in the following way: " [w]as a mentor to folks, people looked up to him, explained and showed them how to get through things. This secession sparked a rebellion that is still being waged of Fame" and at 906-907. at 502, 548. Timothy Allen Lloyd, (DOB 1967-10-16), of Wilmington, a former computer network programmer for Omega Engineering Corp. ("Omega"), a Bridgeport, Gloucester County, New Jersey corporation with offices in Stamford, Connecticut, and branches around the world, was arraigned before U.S. District Judge William H. Walls. Mold & Engineering. suffered $1.7 billion in lost business and other damages. Retrieved 13 September 2014. A new trial is warranted if the defendant likely suffered "substantial prejudice" as a result of the jury's exposure to the extraneous information. 949 F.2d at 96. to issue a counteroffensive. If convicted, Mr. Lloyd faces a maximum sentence of 5 years for the first count and 10 years for the second. David L. Smith, 30 years old at the time, said he named the virus after an See Waldorf v. Shuta, 3 F.3d 705, 710 (3d Cir. Yet, as this court stated in Waldorf, " [i]n some cases the publicity that occurs is so fundamentally prejudicial that actual prejudice is presumed as a matter of law. 1991); Fed. On July 31, 1996, the malicious software code destroyed the programs that ran the company's . Sometime between July 23 and July 31, Lloyd was offered a position at W.L. conviction against Tim Lloyd, 37, of Wilmington, Delaware. App. On July 30, 1996, the bomb went off after a co-worker switched on a computer terminal. While Citibank spokespeople have However, in the instant case, after the District Court deviated from Federal Rule of Evidence 606(b) by questioning Simpson about the actual effect the "Love Bug" story had on her vote, App. Virgin Islands v. Gereau, 523 F.2d 140, 151 (3d Cir. We will therefore proceed to assess the probability of prejudice, and to do so we must "review [ ] the entire record, analyz [e] the substance of the extrinsic evidence, and compar [e] it to that information of which the jurors were properly aware." ''The reality is that managers significantly underestimate the potential information-technology-related risks that are attributable to insiders.''. In January 1998, Levin pled guilty in federal court Anyone can read what you share. ''That's not how it is today. Federal prosecutors believe that the programmer, Timothy A. Lloyd, intentionally destroyed computer files of his employer, Omega Engineering Inc. of Bridgeport, N.J., because he was upset over the loss of his job. App. Courtney Walsh, a former subordinate and close friend of Lloyd who had since become estranged from him, replaced Lloyd as supervisor of the CNC Department. launch the attack against the web sites. This case was tried vigorously and it was tried on the theory of somehow and sometime before he was terminated from his employment, this defendant sabotaged the computer system at his employment place. The court then questioned as to the subjective effect of this information, and she stated that she learned that it was possible for the person who set off the "Love Bug" virus to affect computers worldwide, and thought that it was possible for Lloyd to have triggered the "time bomb" in the Omega computer system without having direct physical access to the computer server at the time. original message to alt.sex. Omega Engineering Corp. ("Omega") is a New Jersey- based manufacturer of highly specialized and sophisticated industrial process measurement devices and control equipment for, inter alia, the U.S. Navy and NASA. 1984); United States v. Hillard, 701 F.2d 1052, 1064 (2d Cir. pled guilty to 56 charges, including mischief and illegal use of a computer Gore & Associates at a job fair about a possible job opening. Tim Lloyd, 39, of Wilmington Del., must now surrender to the U.S. Federal Court May 6. That expert also testified that there were three "tests" of the "time bomb," and that Lloyd was present at Omega after hours on each of those occasions. In December 1999, Smith pleaded guilty to federal and On May 9, 2000, Timothy Lloyd was convicted of writing six lines of codeessentially, a code "bomb"that obliterated Omega Engineering Corporation's design and production programs. of the requests from EDT activists were redirected to a Java applet programmed See United States v. Console, 13 F.3d 641, 666 (3d Cir. AOL's servers had served as a conduit for the virus, which was contained in a Craig Chamberlain Security Do-er. card numbers and personal information about customers and created telephone We will not essay so long a logical leap." Olson further testified that the "time bomb" was planted prior to July 30, 1996, and even prior to February 21, 1996, the date of the first test. The court repeatedly asked her to explain the actual effect this information had on her vote, but she provided conflicting answers. Omega Engineering is a company providing sensing and connectivity solutions in the process measurement and control industry. App. App. Gore. App. When Levin was extradited to the U.S. in 1997, he was described in the Id. P. 52(a), and the fact that several jurors in this case "had never even used a computer," App. 1996, the date that the bomb was set to detonate. Contact M.R. And, unlike the extraneous information in Waldorf, the "Love Bug" story is both completely unrelated and factually dissimilar to the facts of the case. Industry analysts estimate that in-house security breaches account for 70 to 90 percent of the attacks on corporate computer networks. Nine former Omega employees testified that they never had any problems with Lloyd and that Lloyd was always very professional. Retrieved 13 September 2014. In doing On May 9, 2000, Timothy Lloyd was convicted of writing six lines of codeessentially, a code "bomb"that obliterated Omega Engineering Corporation's design and production programs. Government witnesses testified that normally with Novell networks only one person has supervisory-level access and that that one person at Omega was Lloyd. He had worked there for 11 years, eventually assuming a ", "This was a devious and calculated act," said prosecutor V. Grady O'Malley. Mayhue, 969 F.2d at 926 (stating that prejudice may be inferred where jury reaches verdict less than three hours after being exposed to extraneous information "despite having been plagued by `irreconcilable differences' the night before"). The defense's theory was that the massive deletion of files could have resulted from an accident or could have been caused by another employee, either intentionally or unintentionally. In the next few days, Buy.com, eBay, CNN, In particular, we have tended to apply the presumption of prejudice when a juror is directly contacted by third- parties. See the article in its original context from. 1983); United States v. Bassler, 651 F.2d 600, 603 (8th Cir. in southern Mexico. Thomas Inglin, one of the programmers trained in Novell networks, testified that the files had been deleted and "purged," i.e., rendered unusable and unrecoverable. App. was finally laid to rest. We need to deter others in this increasingly computerized world and economy. The defense further sought to refute the government's emphasis on the amount of Omega property recovered from Lloyd's home by pointing out that Lloyd often brought work home with him while employed at Omega, and that his supervisors knew this. targeted system so busy that it can't handle its normal workload. Citibank, tricking the company's computers into distributing an estimated $10 in September 1998. Although this timing may suggest the likelihood of prejudice as in Waldorf, in fact, the jury had already deliberated for two days so it is reasonable to expect that the jurors were well-informed about the evidence set forth at trial and about the different theories of the case by the time they learned of the "Love Bug." See United States v. Maree, 934 F.2d 196, 201 (9th Cir. Simpson also testified that she and the other jurors did not discuss the story of the "Love Bug" during deliberations, although she admitted to asking other jurors whether they had heard the story. nearly unreachable by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. researcher dubbed "The Zapatista Effect," which suggests that the very nature There is also the issue of computer espionage, which in some cases has included computer sabotage. He also testified that he examined the hard drive recovered from Lloyd's home and found the exact same strings of commands that comprised "FUSE.EXE." at 500. "Case Study of Insider Sabotage: The Tim Lloyd/OMEGA Case" (PDF). Significantly, evidence that went unchallenged included: the string of commands found on the hard drive in Lloyd's home that was identical to that used in the program that purged the Omega network of all its files; the testimony that the "time bomb" had been tested three times previously and that on each occasion Lloyd had stayed late at the office; Lloyd's willingness to accept up to $12,000 less in a job with W.L. WGBH educational foundation, National Infrastructure On May 9, 2000, Timothy Lloyd was convicted of writing six lines of code--essentially, a code "bomb"--that obliterated Omega Engineering Corporation's design and production programs. One researcher traced the rise of "hacktivism"--the use of technology and at 907. into the internet as an experiment. App. at 953. customers to make transfers to his accounts. at 707. Agency (NSA) computer security expert, wrote 99 lines of code and released them Test, troubleshoot, and monitor aerospace systems with high precision, under even the most extreme conditions. For more accounts of notorious hacks, see the Discovery Channel's "Hackers Hall 1975). This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google. In his book Tangled Web, author Richard Power writes, "The Simpson testified that on the last day of deliberations -- the first day following media reports of the "Love Bug" virus -- the jury did not discuss the "Love Bug" at all during the actual deliberations. ordered him to pay Citibank $240,000. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Newark filed an appeal. That the extraneous information is outside the jurors' generalized knowledge does not necessarily signify that the information is prejudicial. App. The government describes Olson's testimony as suggesting that "only an individual with system administrative skills, programming skills, Microsoft Windows experience, and independent knowledge of how to change the deleting program's message could have" committed the act of computer sabotage. pinpoint the New Jersey internet service provider (ISP) used to post the Lloyd's supervisor, James Ferguson, testified for the government that, even though he told Lloyd this change in positions was only a "lateral move," in fact it constituted a "demotion," as it took supervisory capabilities away from Lloyd. Lloyd was convicted in May 2000 of planting a software time bomb in a centralized file server at Omega Engineering Inc.'s Bridgeport, New Jersey, manufacturing plant. Apparently he was counseled on several occasions about these problems, but never improved his behavior. You're all set! On July 31, 1996, a logic bomb was triggered on the server for Omega Engineering's manufacturing operations, Sealed App. And the percentage is probably even higher than that because most insider attacks go undetected. Six weeks later the FBI's National Infrastructure at 794-796 (pointing the jury to the testimony at trial as well as documents and other physical items submitted into evidence). Such questioning clearly is impermissible under Rule 606(b), and when the District Court issued its order granting Lloyd's motion for a new trial it acknowledged that it "probably should not have asked [the juror] that question specifically." 606(b)). To curtail the spread of the After The defense also challenged the testimony of government witnesses suggesting that only Lloyd had supervisory-level access to the Omega network. Further, there was strong uncontradicted evidence to support the verdict. The ISP was able to provide investigators with Id. The morning of July 31, 1996, the first worker in the door at Omega Engineering's manufacturing plant in Bridgeport, N.J., logged on to his computer and unwittingly detonated a software time bomb that systematically eradicated all the programs that ran the company's manufacturing operations. P. 714.257.4800 F. 714.257.4810; E. info@schydraulic.com; SC Hydraulic Engineering Corp. 1130 Columbia Street, Brea, CA 92821 1994). had committed the largest ever act of worker-related computer sabotage, causing Lloyd, who had worked at Omega for 11 years and became "a trusted member of the family" there, had actually built the computer network that he would later destroy. The morning of July 31, 1996, the first worker in the door at Omega Engineering's manufacturing plant in Bridgeport, N.J., logged on to his computer and unwittingly detonated a software time bomb that systematically eradicated all the programs that ran the company's manufacturing operations. of Wichita, Inc., 969 F.2d 919, 922 (10th Cir. The genesis of this presumption is the Supreme Court's opinion in Remmer v. United States, 347 U.S. 227 (1954), where the Court explained that " [i]n a criminal case, any private communication, contact, or tampering directly or indirectly, with a juror during a trial about a matter pending before the jury is, for obvious reasons, deemed presumptively prejudicial, if not made in pursuance of known rules of the court with full knowledge of the parties." We may overturn the verdict and grant a new trial only if there was a substantial likelihood of prejudice. This court has applied the presumption of prejudice only when the extraneous information is of a considerably serious nature. The FBI was first tipped off to the Phonemasters' actions in 1994. Id. Was he guilty? at 601-602. Nevertheless, she admitted to asking "some jurors" if they had heard the story over the weekend, and they said they did, but the jurors "didn't discuss it, we mentioned it." According to the government, Lloyd's behavior raised concerns with a number of Omega's managers, in particular Ferguson, who decided in late June 1996 that it was time to fire Lloyd. in internet chat rooms about the attacks and was tracked through traces he left Thus, Lloyd has not met his burden of proof. United States v. Gilsenan, 949 F.2d 90, 95 (3d Cir. In 1990, a federal judge sentenced Morris to 400 hours of community service and 2.6M subscribers in the hacking community. You can explore additional available newsletters here. federal sentencing guidelines allow for a maximum of $80 million in damages. Lloyd was convicted in May 2000 of planting a software time bomb in a centralized file server at Omega Engineering Inc.'s Bridgeport, New Jersey, manufacturing plant. The firing was effective immediately and Lloyd was quickly escorted from the premises. obtain the information he needed to commit the fraudulent transactions. Lloyd did not testify. the Phonemasters keystrokes as they exchanged stolen credit card numbers. . Ultimately resulting in deleting the software that ran their manufacturing systems, costing $2 million in repairs, $10 million in revenue and 80 employees beeing laid off. ''It did and continues to do significant damage,'' Mr. DiFrancesco said. had Madonna's home phone number, they could hack into the FBI's national crime 2000). political interaction through its use of the internet. Br. Unlike the information in Console, we are not faced with direct contact between a juror and a third-party. The jury in Gilsenan dealt with two defendants, a 41-count indictment, and a six-week trial. He had worked there for 11 years, eventually assuming a position as a network administrator. In response, Omega tried to hire locally-based programmers to recover the lost programs but these efforts proved futile. It deleted all of the company's design and production programs. After one of the jurors advised the court that she had learned from the media during the course of deliberations about off-site computer sabotage, the District Court granted Lloyd's motion for a new trial. Olson further testified that he had reason to believe July 30, 1996 was the trigger date that set off the actual deletion of files. 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Friday (alternating weeks) 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. To maximize customer convenience, it is highly recommended that an appointment time be scheduled. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. . In fact, if anything, the "Love Bug" story and the remote-access theory could just as easily, if not more easily, support an argument that someone else other than Lloyd, who never had direct access to the Omega network, committed the act of sabotage. See Gilsenan, 949 F.2d at 95-96 (not applying presumption of prejudice to media coverage of failed plea agreement in the case); United States v. D'Andrea, 495 F.2d 1170, 1172 n.5 (3d Cir. /j`Ibq~76x`@l\wZ$|LjcZc? Ernesto Zedillo, however, reportedly buckled and crashed under the pressure of the 18,000 protestors who launched FloodNet. App. Computers were to charges of conspiracy to commit bank, wire, and computer fraud. BACKGROUND. Since Omega makes components for clients such as NASA and the U.S. Navy, those systems were the company's rainmakers. And during argument, the trial judge repeatedly cautioned counsel that he was unconcerned with the subjective effect the information had on Simpson. What is a pressure transducer and how does it work? was replicating and infecting machines at a much faster rate than he had The court concluded that "the average juror, having heard about the `love bug' and using that information, that's the key, and using that information, would place his or her vote upon an actual pedestal that was not presented to her by the government." They said his actions amounted to possibly the most expensive case of computer sabotage in history. Please keep in mind, that the City of Brea is closed on alternate Fridays as shown on this calendar. Gore testified that, in the interviews, Lloyd acknowledged that he was willing to accept a salary of $45,000, less than the $57,000 he was receiving from Omega. at 585. A(n) is any input (i.e., a piece of software, an argument string, or sequence of commands) that takes advantage of a bug, glitch or vulnerability in . The Most Risky Job Ever. Reporting on ISIS in Afghanistan. App. Experts from Ontrack Data Services analyzed copies they had made of the hard drive from Omega's file server. On Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey District Judge: Hon. App. See Bertoli, 40 F.3d at 1393; Mayhue, 969 F.2d at 922. 898 F.2d at 261. The appellate court said the "District Court abused its discretion in granting a new trial.". United States v. Thornton, 1 F.3d 149, 156 (3d Cir. The government argues that the "Love Bug" story cannot be prejudicial because it is part of "the jurors' generalized knowledge about the parties, or some other aspect of the case." the first hit on February 7, 2000. An international group, dubbed the "Phonemasters" by the FBI, hacked into the This court previously has found relevant the length of the jury's deliberations and the structure of its verdict. at 956. The government contended that Lloyd knew he was going to get fired because he had been demoted, had been written-up, and had received a lower-than-expected performance review and raise, and that his motive was revenge. After the hearing, Lloyd moved for a new trial and the District Court granted the motion. We independently review the record to determine if that party has met that burden. On November 18, 1999, Carnegie Mellon's It is the party seeking the new trial, here Lloyd, who bears the burden of demonstrating the likelihood of prejudice. There have been numerous instances in which companies have alleged that employees who, like Mr. Lloyd, had been dismissed, not only damaged computer files, but leaked information about what was on the files to competitors. 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