A software developer has been found guilty of sabotaging his ex-employer's systems by running custom malware and installing a ...

Annoyed by a re-org at the industrial power management company where he worked, software developer Davis Lu rigged the ...

A programmer planted a code time bomb on his employer in case he was fired. It went off and he is probably going to prison.

Houston resident Davis Lu started working for power management company Eaton Corporation. His work life went well until 2018, when a company-wide corporate ...

Davis Lu, 55, installed malicious code and a "kill switch" after his responsibilities were reduced, causing significant ...

March 10, 2025 – A federal jury in Cleveland convicted a Texas man on Friday for writing and deploying malicious code on his ...

The kill switch, which Lu named “IsDLEnabledinAD,” was designed to check to make sure Lu’s account was enabled in the company ...

This kill switch, the DOJ said, appeared to have been created by Lu because it was named "IsDLEnabledinAD," which is an ...

Davis Lu was convicted of sabotaging his employer’s systems through malicious code, and deleting encrypted data.

Following a 2018 corporate realignment that reduced his responsibilities and system access, he began sabotaging his ...

Schneider Electric has announced an OT (operational technology) cybersecurity technology that, it says, will allow users to manage access to RTUs (remote terminal units) in harsh environments as ...

Then, it's said, Lu created what the Feds described as a kill switch – more like a dead man's switch, perhaps – that would ...