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21 Months Jail & $77,000 Fine  for Sabotaging CITI Bank Network in 2013 Ex staff of Citibank named  Lennon Ray Brown  was sentenced to Jail for 21 months  along with a $77,000 fine  by a Texas court ( U.S. District C. Godbey   ) for sabotaging the bank’s internal network, The Register reports. Lennon Ray Brown, who worked at the bank’s Irving office, said he wanted to get back at management for "firing" him after he was called out for poor job performance. Brown had been working at Citibank's Irving, Texas, corporate office since 2012, first as a contractor and later as a staff employee, when he was called in by a manager and reprimanded for poor performance. Brown, 38, admitted that on December 23, 2013, he issued commands to wipe the configuration files on 10 core routers within Citibank's internal network. Brown deliberately uploaded commands to the bank's Global Control Center routers that deleted the configuration files, ultimately conges...

Microsoft looses its Anti piracy raid case due to wrong facts in the Petition The Bombay High Court has criticised Microsoft for making misleading claims when it secured a preliminary order that allowed the company to search the premises of a local company it accused of copyright infringement.  Court vacated a stay it had granted this June in favour of the US tech major in its plea against  Girnar Software  over unlicensed use of its products. In a ruling handed down on July 15, 2016  Hon. Justice Gautam Patel vacated a previous order handed down last month and has given Microsoft an opportunity to withdraw its complaint.  In the dispute, US-based Microsoft sued Girnar Software earlier this year for allegedly using unauthorised copies of its software including Microsoft Windows, Office and Visual Studios.  On June 24, Hon. Justice had granted Microsoft’s request for an Anton Piller order. Under those orders, a defendant in a proceeding is required ...