A transportation security officer has been charged with deliberately attacking the government network that monitored and held together the terror database. The man from Colorado has been accused of uploading malicious coding into the government computers that was used for screening security personnel and workers at airports. He installed what is known as a logic bomb into the network in October of this previous year and was programmed to inflict damage and stop the servers on an unknown date. Fortunately though he was caught by other workers and stopped before he could complete his mission.
The man accused had been working at the airport since2004. The area that he worked in gave him access to secure areas and large amounts of sensitive information. He entered federal court on Wednesday and entered a plea of not guilty and was then released on $25,000 bail. It is still unclear at this time if the programme he attempted to upload was designed to destroy data from the computers or it was to disable servers and the network for a period of time.
