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The Naked CIO: Why boards get IT spend so wrong
Comment You fix leaks in the roof and holes in the wall before building the extension. These discussions mark the beginning of what I affectionately call the silly season. But come up with a hare-brained scheme and boards fall over themselves, says the... [11 Aug 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Tighten content security
Comment With the problem of spam in check rather than cured, focus has shifted to data leaks. Before investing in a new product from a content-filtering vendor, perhaps based on some lively marketing relating to the hazards of data leaks, IT departments... [02 May 2008]
How to detect data leaks
Comment Websense technical director Mark Murtagh said when one customer started using the DLP tool to monitor its infrastructure, there were up to 1,000 potential leaks on a daily basis. Data leaks are a growing problem. [19 Mar 2008]
Mark Hurd
AS Profile Hurd has also had to weather a high-level scandal over board-room leaks and phone tapping, culminating in the departure of chairwoman Patricia Dunn. Mark Hurd assumed the mantle of CEO at HP in 2005, replacing the beleaguered Carly Fiorina. [12 Oct 2007]
HP: Spying row was a "wake-up call"
News Hewlett-Packard's top ethics and privacy executives on Thursday said a now infamous investigation into boardroom media leaks was a "wake-up call" that prompted a shakeup in the company's operations. The changes are a direct response to the brouhaha... [02 Mar 2007]
HP veteran CFO calls it a day
News HP revealed this summer that its investigators used false pretences, or pretexting, to obtain the phone records of more than a dozen people, including journalists, board members and employees, in an effort to pinpoint the source of boardroom leaks. [11 Dec 2006]
HP to face civil suit over spying scandal?
News The state is still gathering information about the damage that may have been caused to those who HP spied on as the company attempted to unearth news leaks, according to sources close to the matter. Filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court on... [30 Nov 2006]
HP names new ethics officer
News Hoak replaces Kevin Hunsaker, a central figure in a probe by the company to find the source of news leaks earlier this year. HP CEO Mark Hurd said in a statement: "HP has traditionally led the industry in adherence to standards of ethics, privacy... [13 Oct 2006]
HP leak probe: Criminal charges filed
News California's attorney general filed felony criminal charges on Wednesday against former HP chairman Patricia Dunn and four others in connection with the company's internal probe into boardroom leaks to the news media. [05 Oct 2006]
HP 'was warned over leak probe's legality'
News HP's outside law firm told the company in a report last month that investigators' use of Social Security numbers, in a probe into boardroom leaks, "more likely than not violates federal law". The first, "Kona I", stretched from early 2005 until... [02 Oct 2006]
HP legal eagle falls on her sword
News The move comes hours before HP executives are scheduled to testify before a Congress subcommittee in an investigation into a spying campaign to probe leaks to the media. The company has also followed reporters and tried to trace emails in an effort... [28 Sep 2006]
HP leak probe scandal claims more scalps
News The company has said that as part of its effort to determine the source behind leaks to the press, outside investigators working for HP obtained the telephone records of more than a dozen people using false pretences, a practice known as pretexting. [27 Sep 2006]
HP leak probe scandal: Dunn steps down
News I feel strongly that leaks hurt the company's reputation and its ability to operate effectively. Kona I may have concluded by late summer 2005 but HP apparently kept looking for leaks. Sherbin told CNET News.com he had been asked to alert other HP... [25 Sep 2006]
HP leak probe: More details emerge
News HP thoroughly investigated a third CNET News.com reporter and his family as part of its controversial probe into unauthorised media leaks, silicon.com sister site CNET News.com has learned. CEO Mark Hurd is slated to become chairman. [22 Sep 2006]
HP's Hurd linked to leak probe scandal
News HP has said the personal phone records of board members, two HP employees, nine journalists, including three CNET News.com reporters, and an unknown number of other people were accessed by investigators hired by the company to look into news leaks. [21 Sep 2006]
