Did the hacker who shared internal Occupy Wall Street emails violate CEH ethics
Gawker has run a very interesting expose on a Certified Ethical Hacker who infiltrated Occupy Wall Street (OWS) as a private citizen, and shared internal OWS e-mails with Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government page. The question that he did it is fairly well established with his own writing on the Big Government page, and the Gawker [...]
Should instructors weed students out of programs based on ethics?
While the subject of teaching ethics is all the rage in business education, with many good ideas coming out of that realm, it might also be time to take a look at other professions that can stand to learn from what is happening in business schools. While my focus has been on information security, maybe [...]
Being Upfront Gets Better Results than Trying to Sneak It By
I’m generally not tracking the “post ads to your social networks” movement, be it sponsored blog posts or tweeting ads to your followers on Twitter. There is one aspect to it that I think is most important: disclosure. Robert Scoble has a post up, More thoughts on in-Tweet advertising, where he notes that he unfollowed [...]
Twitter Hack Exposes Internal Company Documents
While there are issues with publishing information that someone got via a hacking attack, often at times the information can be useful in many ways. Over the weekend Techcrunch was sent an unsolicited e-mail from a hacker that contained over 300 internal Twitter documents, and an explanation on how the various accounts was hacked. Techcrunch [...]
A Few More Thoughts on Embargoes
I started this as a comment to Ben’s post, than it grew post-sized. I have somewhat ambivalent feeling about embargoes, so here it goes: We do respect embargoes which we agree to, which is typically how you get pre-release information. I don’t like implied embargoes we never had the chance to agree to. You see, [...]
