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- HP privacy probe: Dunn closer to being done (for)?
- News came out yesterday that former HP chairwoman Patricia Dunn was the one who gave HPs outside private investigators the phone numbers that were later used as part of a fraudulent pretexting scheme that was designed to smoke out whoever it was inside of HP that was leaking company secrets...
- Tags: Patricia Dunn
- Blog posts 2006-10-04
- Cingular sues investigator over HP pretexting
- Cingular sues investigator over HP pretextingCingular, raising the barThis whole HP internal leak investigation reeks. At leas Cingular can raise the bar on it's privacy -- seeing how its network isn’t the best.For HP, there's a big difference between maintaining a competitive edge and shunning established HP governance policies http://www.essentialsecurity.com/news.htm?id=43Getting...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, SECURITY, irony, Cingular Wireless, Hewlett-Packard Co., Patricia Dunn, Verizon Communications Inc., pretexting
- Discussion threads 2006-09-29
- Calif. AG sees charges in HP case within a week
- Calif. AG sees charges in HP case within a weekAnd they had better charge Dunn too. She accepted the illegally obtainedprivate information and actually used it. Remember, ignorance of the law is no excuse. Playing dumb will NOT help her.Another thing here, we should have special laws to protect the...
- Tags: Business ethics, Investment, Financial accounting, almighty bottom line, Corporate America, Now IT, Hewlett-Packard Co., Patricia Dunn, Enron Corp., pretexting
- Discussion threads 2006-09-13
- Hewlett-Packard's Patricia Dunn, I have a problem with you
- So now it comes out that investigators working for HP (that'd be Hewlett-Packard) have been using phone pretexting to investigate reporter's records to track down a leak believed to come from the corporate boardroom.The leak angered HP Chair Patricia Dunn enough that she reportedly authorized this pretexting. Or, at least...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., pretexting
- Blog posts 2006-09-09
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- Can a case be made against the Palin e-mail hacker?
- Can a case be made against the Palin e-mail hacker?What was done was wrong. Period.Hacking is hacking. I sure hope a case can be made against this persons.As much as I can't stand the thought of Sarah Palin being a heartbeat away from running this country, and no children...I'm NOT...
- Tags: Hacking, Sarah Palin, e-mail, e-mail hacker, David Kernell
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- VMware enlists Cisco to help supercharge virtualization
- Now that virtualization has evolved into a proven data center solution, attention is turning to how to optimize it to improve performance and make it scalable to thousands of systems. In partnership with VMware, Cisco wants to play a major role in taking virtualization to the next level, and on...
- Tags: Data Center, VMware Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Virtualization, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Best Buy acquires Napster; Eyes digital music distribution
- Best Buy is gobbling up Napster for $121 million, or $2.65 a share, double the online music service's closing price on Friday. In a statement Monday, Best Buy outlined its rationale: Best Buy intends to use Napster's capabilities and digital subscriber base to reach new customers...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Digital Music, Napster Inc., Retail, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Alcatel-Lucent names new CEO, Chairman
- Alcatel-Lucent said Tuesday it has named Philippe Camus as non-executive Chairman and Ben Verwaayen as CEO. With the move Alcatel-Lucent has put the not so-glorious reign of CEO Patricia Russo behind it. Telecommunications equipment company Alcatel-Lucent, which was formed by the merger of Alcatel and Lucent, has...
- Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., Alcatel, CEO, Ben Verwaayen, Mergers & Acquisitions, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Investment, Finance, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Make Outlook 2007 folders work for you
- This sample chapter from Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 explains how to navigate in Outlook's new interface, create folders, move and copy information between folders, and manipulate properties to fine-tune your folders. Title: Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 ...
- Tags: Folder, Que Publishing, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software
- Book chapters 2008-08-15
- Wanted: New Alcatel-Lucent leaders to fix merger debacle
- Alcatel-Lucent said chairman Serge Tchuruk and CEO Patricia Russo--the architects of the 2006 merger that formed the company--are out. The Alcatel-Lucent merger hasn't gone so hot and both Tchuruk and Russo get the blame. The networking company, which was bulked up when Alcatel and Lucent merged, couldn't...
- Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., Merger, Leader, Alcatel, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Sun releases JRE Version 6 Update 7, 90ò0of desktops currently at risk*
- Sun releases JRE Version 6 Update 7, 90ò0of desktops currently at risk*RE: Sun releases JRE Version 6 Update 7, 90�0of desktops currently at risk*I have been trying to d/l the upgrade all morning & get error 1101. I followed all the steps outlined in the error, but still can't upgrade...
- Tags: Web browsers, JRE Version 6 Update 7, Sun Microsystems Inc., JRE, Nate, Java, desktop
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- About that cellular interference...
- About that cellular interference...Fire:Fire: ie://malicious_mpack.site.com/Or something like that. :-DVery Cool AND...I very much think this can be done but also if you can focus enough high frequency energy at a device you will cause a parasitic SCR effect (by the effect of raising a CMOS chip signal input level...
- Tags: power supply
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Geek Squad: Best Buy's secret sauce?
- Best Buy last week reported solid fiscal first quarter results, but did dish out enough detail to bring out a few worries. Home office gear is selling, but the consumer is winded. But the big takeaway is that Best Buy's services business--specifically Geek Squad--is posting twice the growth of the...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Taxes, Free Trade, Retail, Sales Strategy, Financial Planning, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Demo exploits posted for unpatched MS Word vulnerability
- Demo exploits posted for unpatched MS Word vulnerabilityThe latest Office 2007 is not affectedThe latest Office 2007 is not affectedDamn it... and on a day I have reporting to doSee, I work with a group of guys where all we do is hack for our clients and show them how...
- Tags: Word processors, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., MS Word vulnerability, Microsoft Word, vulnerability
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- 90ò0of all statistics can be made to say anything... 50ò0of the time, aka my thoughts on the Verizon report
- 90ò0of all statistics can be made to say anything... 50ò0of the time, aka my thoughts on the Verizon reportHow many breaches from External...sources were facilitated by poor practices of inside sources? Weak passwords, poor surfing habits, poor security implementations, etc. External breaches only occur when an insider allows it to...
- Tags: Firewalls, SECURITY, NETWORKING, Network security, Verizon Communications Inc., WAF
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Serena's Mashup Composer ushers content and widgets to on-demand business mashups
- Acting as a mashup matchmaker, Serena Software is bringing together content -- widgets, RSS feeds, and Flash components -- with enterprise data for on-demand business mashups, giving non-technical users access to powerful customized applications without burdening IT departments. On Tuesday, June 10, Serena will announce the upcoming...
- Tags: Serena Software Inc., On-demand, On-demand Business, Mashup, Serena, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Mobile software Monday: 4Smartphone hosted Exchange with mobile device clients
- While my focus in the Mobile software Monday articles is on software for your mobile phones I wanted to branch out just a bit to include a service that I use in conjuction with software on my devices that I find absolutely essential to my usage of mobile devices. Jason...
- Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Device, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Server, Mobile Device, E-mail, 4Smartphone, Exchange, S60, Jason Langridge, RoadSync, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-26
- Mobius Seattle 2008: SE, MWg, and HTC show off their devices
- I was very pleased to be invited to the first Mobius event of 2008, that is actually being held here in the Seattle area. Thus, I had no travel to get to Mobius and that may have made the decision to invite me to this event...
- Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Mobile, Mobius, XPERIA, SE, Panel Technology, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- ToorCon Seattle 2008: Nuke plants, non-existent sub domain attacks, muffin diving, and Guitar Hero
- *** Updated: ToorCon images uploaded. Click here! Alright, that title probably sounds pretty random... well, welcome to ToorCon! ToorCon has long been one of my favorite conferences for the easy atmosphere, laid-back presentations, and parties. This year's Seattle-based ToorCon was the best I've been to. ...
- Tags: Researcher, XSS, Domain, Microsoft Corp., Conference, Attack, ToorCon Seattle 2008, John, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- The Vista license "loophole" that isn't
- Software licensing is often hard to understand. But that's no excuse for so-called Windows experts to deliberately publish sensational stories that turn the facts upside-down. I'm talking about the fuss that Scott Dunn and Brian Livingston kicked up in yesterday's version of the Windows Secrets newsletter, in...
- Tags: License Agreement, Clean Install, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Edition, Scott Dunn, Nothing, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
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