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The abrupt resignation Friday of Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) CEO Mark Hurd amid a sexual harassment claim shook up the tech world. "Hurd was the last executive on earth you'd expect to resign under a Read more...

A Tennessee legislator has acknowledged that his son, a 20-year old college student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, has been cited on blogs and message boards in connection with the hacking Read more...

In 2006, HP disclosed that misconduct by private investigators and company employees occurred during an attempt to identify the source of a boardroom leak. Now company officials, hoping to put the Read more...

After three years of litigation, IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) separately paid fines that added up to $5.3 million, in order to settle a broader set of DOJ lawsuits stemming from multiple Read more...

In the wake of the HP spying scandal, in which executives may still face criminal charges, the U.S. Senate Read more...

> The top IT turkeys of 2006. Article > IBM releases new security application for SMBs. Read more...

Remember that whole Sony rootkit scandal? The company was selling CDs with hidden rootkit software. Well, Read more...

Think 'HP' and most likely the board spying scandal, or Carly Fiorina's memoir comes to mind. It's not Read more...

> Microsoft security czar moves into new Windows system role. Article > Learning from scandal and getting a grip on Read more...

Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of HP, couldn't have asked for a better time frame in pushing her new book onto the shelves particularly given the recent HP scandal and indictments. In a wide ranging Read more...