Software developer fired after he outsourced job to China and spent all day watching cat videos online

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A software developer’s clever plan to outsource his job to a developer in China and to spend his work days surfing Reddit and watching cat videos was derailed thanks to the digital trail he left behind. Verizon shares the tale on its security blog. An unnamed U.S. company using Verizon as its Internet service provider (ISP) asked for Verizon’s help in figuring out why a user based in China was establishing a VPN connection to their network on a daily basis. They assumed it was a hacker. A digital investigation revealed that not to be the case.

The suspected hacker was connecting to the network using credentials that belonged to “Bob,” a software developer in his mid-40s that Verizon describes as an “inoffensive and quiet family man.” They assumed he must have some kind of malicious software on his computer enabling the hacking, so they took a forensic image of his desktop. (Yes, your employer can do that.) His daily Web browsing history told an interesting story. Click below for full story -