Posted on 10/01/2020 6:32:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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.
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Hahahahahaha! I began reading this, and thought “Wait...what...I think...I’ve...seen this before...is this some kind of epidemic?”
There is a whole industry for this. A lot of H1-B visa folks from India get the jobs in the USA with fake resumes, and then have smarter guys back in India do the actual work for them.
reminds me of my aunt who my uncle paid $50.00 to clean and straighten his large and VERY messy cabinet shop: she hired one of her poor relatives to do it for her for $20.00 ...
Wonder if it’s possible to outsource his prison confinement to a Chinese gulag.
Wally?
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