Security News > 2020 > December > Rogue ex-Cisco employee who crippled WebEx conferences and cost Cisco millions gets two years in US prison

A former Cisco employee who went medieval on his former employer and cost the company millions, has been sentenced to two years in prison and a $15,000 fine.

Five months later he used access credentials to get back into Cisco's systems and deleted virtual machines on Webex - borking more than 16,000 WebEx Teams accounts for two weeks in some cases and costing Cisco $2.4m in refunds and repair work.

In a security alert on Tuesday Apache warned that an attacker could use forced OGNL evaluation against some untrusted users to get code onto a target system.

FBI warns ransomware crims have US school children in their sights.

Ransomware attacks against American schools have doubled in the last three months and worse is yet to come, according to an advisory from three US government agencies.

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