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Developer sabotaged ex-employer with kill switch that activated when he was let go

A federal jury in Cleveland has found a senior software developer guilty of sabotaging his employer's systems – and he's now facing a potential ten years behind bars. Davis Lu, 55, of Houston, Texas, was a seasoned coder employed by power-management biz Eaton Corporation between November 2007 to October 2019. In his last year with the outfit, there was a corporate restructuring and he was demoted, both in terms of job responsibilities and server access. On August 9, 2019 Lu began introducing hom...

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