Ms. Ullman explains that on one occasion in her career as a software engineer she tried to fix some code with what she thought was a tiny change and she succeeded in bringing the whole system down.
They capture samples via honey pots and customer reports, un-package them, reverse engineer the executables so they can see the source code, and try to figure out what the malware is doing.
The person familiar with the matter said that the attackers gained access to Google's computer code by compromising a workstation used by a Google engineer.
Singleton (1916-99), the brilliant electrical engineer and cofounder of Teledyne, who reached out to Benioff after using some of his Apple code to create a chess game.