{"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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-team-management"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-4C","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":297,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/hp-fireworks-continue-to-explode\/","url_meta":{"origin":286,"position":0},"title":"HP Fireworks Continue To Explode","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"September 12, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week we posted on the fiasco involving a leaker on the HP board of directors in HP's Internal Fireworks. 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We wrote about this topic in great detail back in January of last year (click here to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sales Management&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sales Management","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/sales-management\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":505,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/12\/pardon-the-interruption\/","url_meta":{"origin":286,"position":3},"title":"Pardon the Interruption","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"December 14, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's What to Say When Boss Asks: 'Why Isn't This Done Yet?' I'm sure none of you have been asked that question before. I, being an incredible putz, have been asked that question many times. 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