{"id":286,"date":"2006-09-06T14:27:19","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T19:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=286"},"modified":"2006-09-06T14:28:06","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T19:28:06","slug":"hps-internal-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/hps-internal-fireworks\/","title":{"rendered":"HP&#8217;s Internal Fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Typically, I am not a fan of Newsweek but I was drawn to this story from the Drudge Report link &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/14687677\/site\/newsweek\/\" target=\"_blank\">Intrigue In High Places<\/a>. This long article discusses HP&#8217;s chairwoman Patricia Dunn&#8217;s use of data mining to catch a leaker from the HP board of directors. The whole sordid affair sounds like a movie plot.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to an internal HP e-mail, Dunn then took the extraordinary step of authorizing a team of independent electronic-security experts to spy on the January 2006 communications of the other 10 directors &#8211; not the records of calls (or e-mails) from HP itself, but the records of phone calls made from personal accounts. That meant <strong>calls from the directors&#8217; home and their private cell phones<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s my emphasis above and I am still shocked. Apparently the security company used &#8220;pretexting&#8221; to get the personal phone records of all of the board members. Remember, this isn&#8217;t their HP phones, this is there <em>home phones and personal cell phones<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In case you were unaware of pretexting (I had never heard of it):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That practice, according to the Federal Trade Commission, involves using &#8220;false pretenses&#8221; to get another individual&#8217;s personal nonpublic information: telephone records, bank and credit-card account numbers, Social Security number and the like. Pretexting is heavily marketed on the Web.<\/p>\n<p>Typically &#8211; say in the case of a phone company &#8211; pretexters call up and falsely represent themselves as the customer; since companies rarely require passwords, a pretexter may need no more than a home address, account number and heartfelt plea to get the details of an account.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, I would sure like to see the organizational development specialist who wants to tackle this company culture!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typically, I am not a fan of Newsweek but I was drawn to this story from the Drudge Report link &#8211; Intrigue In High Places. This long article discusses HP&#8217;s chairwoman Patricia Dunn&#8217;s use of data mining to catch a leaker from the HP board of directors. The whole sordid affair sounds like a movie plot. According to an internal HP e-mail, Dunn then took the extraordinary step of authorizing a team of independent electronic-security experts to spy on the January 2006 communications of the other 10 directors &#8211; not the records of calls (or e-mails) from HP itself, but the records of phone calls made from personal accounts. That&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/hps-internal-fireworks\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-4C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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