[King Gizzard]

US employee 'outsourced job to China'

Man with computer The employee spent a nine-to-five workday surfing the internet

A security check on a US company has reportedly revealed one of its staff was outsourcing his work to China.

The software developer, in his 40s, is thought to have spent his workdays surfing the web, watching cat videos on YouTube and browsing Reddit and eBay.

He reportedly paid just a fifth of his six-figure salary to a company based in Shenyang to do his job.

Operator Verizon says the scam came to light after the US firm asked it for an audit, suspecting a security breach.

According to Andrew Valentine, of Verizon, the infrastructure company requested the operator's risk team last year to investigate some anomalous activity on its virtual private network (VPN) logs.

"This organisation had been slowly moving toward a more telecommuting oriented workforce, and they had therefore started to allow their developers to work from home on certain days. In order to accomplish this, they'd set up a fairly standard VPN concentrator approximately two years prior to our receiving their call," he was quoted as saying on an internet security website.

The company had discovered the existence of an open and active VPN connection from Shenyang to the employee's workstation that went back months, Mr Valentine said.

And it had then called on Verizon to look into what it had suspected had been malware used to route confidential information from the company to China.

"Central to the investigation was the employee himself, the person whose credentials had been used to initiate and maintain a VPN connection from China," said Mr Valentine.

Further investigation of the employee's computer had revealed hundreds of PDF documents of invoices from the Shenyang contractor, he added.

The employee, an "inoffensive and quiet" but talented man versed in several programming languages, "spent less than one fifth of his six-figure salary for a Chinese firm to do his job for him", Mr Valentine said.

"Authentication was no problem. He physically FedExed his RSA [security] token to China so that the third-party contractor could log-in under his credentials during the workday. It would appear that he was working an average nine-to-five work day," he added.

"Evidence even suggested he had the same scam going across multiple companies in the area. All told, it looked like he earned several hundred thousand dollars a year, and only had to pay the Chinese consulting firm about $50,000 (£31,270) annually."

The employee no longer worked at the firm, Mr Valentine said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21043693

[arista]

Well Yes at the Start
but now they have Found Out
he is like a Criminal, now.

[Marc]

so he gets paid for doing nothing?

it was really long I couldn't be bothered to read it all..

[Kizzy]

I don't see it a genius, fraudulent and greedy but not genius.

[King Gizzard]

Proper genius right there

[arista]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

I don't see it a genius, fraudulent and greedy but not genius.

Yes the End Result

[arista]

Originally Posted by Nathan

Proper genius right there

Inspiration for you

[MTVN]

The software developer, in his 40s, is thought to have spent his workdays surfing the web, watching cat videos on YouTube and browsing Reddit and eBay.

Living the dream

[King Gizzard]

Originally Posted by arista

Inspiration for you

Now I think about it..

[Livia]

Genius.

[Mrluvaluva]

I suppose he thought it was genius, but now is without a job...

[Kizzy]

Bet he feels like a right genius now....
#unemployable

[King Gizzard]

Meh someone will recognize his genius and employ him because he is in fact a genius

[Jake.]

computerLAD

[Mrluvaluva]

Originally Posted by Nathan

Meh someone will recognize his genius and employ him because he is in fact a genius

Of course. Any company would surely employ someone who outsources their work and does nothing in turn for a high salary. Surely they would not be bothered at the proposition of being made a mockery of. I bet the company involved are embarrassed at the fact they did not think of outsourcing themselves, and saving money in the process.

[King Gizzard]

Genius

[cobdo]

GENIUS

[GypsyGoth]

watching cat videos on YouTube