Hacker cuffed in job interview sting with hotel he blackmailed A job-seeking Hungarian hacker has pleaded guilty to breaking into the systems of the Marriott hotel chain before attempting to blackmail his way into an IT job. Attila Nemeth, 26, sent Trojan-infected emails to Marriott employees late last year, according to his plea agreement, in a move that successfully allowed him to …
Idiot is too mild a term... I propose calling him an obliviot... short for oblivious idiot, because he certainly is an idiot, and he was oblivious to the consequences of his attempted blackmail... OBLIVIOT...
Paris, because even she has more sense than to try blackmail...
{Courtesy of Uncle Sam naturally}
The Hungarian economy is in tatters. It's debt is regards as Junk like that of Greece.
Given that, pehaps he is not such a 'twat' as all that.
After all, Uncle Sam will be paying for his room & board for a very long time.
I worked with a kid who honestly believed that breaking into someone else's system, then showing them how you did it, was door-opener for a security gig--"If the company's smart."
Of course, there are examples of corporations who did just that--hired a criminal hacker as a security pro.
I liken it to running around with a married man. The one thing you truly know about him, is that he cheats.
I wonder if this guy was working in Budapest a few years ago.
I worked a security incident at an RMA center in Budapest for my company. Product was being detected as infected in final inspection.
We traced the source to a thumb drive used by a guy with a very similar, if not the same name.
We spend a few thousand investigating and international calling and fired the person once we were sure it was him. Not a single problem from that facility since.
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