• breakdowns

    Employees selling security holes to black-hats

    Tech workers looking for cash are selling information about vulnerabilities in their own companies' products, according to a report in Fast Company by investigative journalist Adam Penenberg. (For the Olds, Penenberg is the guy who busted hacker-hoax writer Stephen Glass ten years ago. Yes, ten years. We are OLDZ.) Penenberg got Hewlett-Packard to admit they'd been compromised by "a rogue employee in France," then tracked down the guy he believes bought the info: An instructor at Paris's Institut SupĂ©rieur d'Electronique. More »

    10:20 AM on Wed Jul 2 2008
    By Paul Boutin
    582 views, 1 comment

    Latest by G2GdoB2B: Cyber-espionage has been running around for a while. But now it's done both ways. "Hacker" go into companies, but companies more »

  • hires

    Carly Fiorina goes from foxy CEO to Fox newsreader

    Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina has signed on to be a Fox Business Network contributor. According to the press release, Fiorina achieved the highest rate of innovation in company history. How they measure that metric is a mystery to us; after all, shortly after Fiorina left, the company engaged in some highly innovative leak-detection practices, leading to the resignation of several board members. But never mind that. The only stat that will likely matter to Fox's Joe-Sixpack audience, sadly, is how short her skirt is.

    4:24 PM on Tue Oct 9 2007
    By Jordan Golson
    624 views, 3 comments

    Latest by Davion: Patent filings went up during her time there because the entire technology industry suddenly became paranoid about that whole thing more »

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