SEC to broaden HP inquiry
News HP has received an additional inquiry from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding both the company's leak probe disclosure and its handling of the resignation of board member Tom Perkins, the company said on Thursday.
[September 22, 2006, 17:20]
HP denies spying on former employee
News While HP denies pretexting Kamb, the company has said that as part of a separate — and now infamous leak probe — it obtained or tried to obtain the phone records of more than a dozen people including current and former directors, employees and...
[March 1, 2007, 14:17]
Reporters tracked before HP story ran
News It has been widely thought that HP reignited and intensified a nearly year-long leak probe after that story was published, but the account given to Krazit and Kawamoto suggests HP had in place the means to quickly track down private phone records...
[September 20, 2006, 17:15]
Criminal charges filed in HP case
News During the press conference, Lockyer and his aides singled out Dunn for fuelling HP's leak probe. Dunn, who has hired a prominent crisis management firm to handle her personal public relations, told a US congressional subcommittee last week that...
[October 5, 2006, 8:50]
HP's Dunn says she was not probe supervisor
News Former HP chairman Patricia Dunn said in congressional testimony released on Wednesday that she relied on executives at the company to advise her on the leak probe and did not consider herself the project's "supervisor".
[September 28, 2006, 9:00]
HP gets new ethics officer
News Besides being the subject of a criminal investigation, former HP officials have had to appear before a congressional subcommittee on the leak probe matter and the company faces related scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
[October 13, 2006, 9:05]
Fiorina: HP board let emotion overrule reason
News Are there only a couple of techniques that were used in HP's leak probe that are outside the bounds of what corporations should be able to do? Her book, Tough Choices, hits shelves this week, just as her former company has found the spotlight over...
[October 12, 2006, 12:00]
HP investigator makes plea bargain
News The data broker charged with federal crimes for his role in the HP news-leak probe will testify against other defendants, according to sources close to the case. Bryan Wagner, who was charged with federal identity theft and conspiracy on Wednesday...
[January 12, 2007, 8:05]
Court dismisses charges against HP's Dunn
News Perkins stepped down from HP's board in May of last year amid differences with Dunn over the leak probe and has lambasted the former chairman for her role in the scandal. A California judge on Wednesday dismissed the charges against former HP...
[March 15, 2007, 10:34]
HP's Hurd recalls few details under questioning
News Patricia Dunn, HP's former chairman, and four others who took part in the company's probe were charged last month in California with four felonies, including identity theft and conspiracy. In September, Hurd appeared before the subcommittee during...
[November 2, 2006, 9:18]
Former chairman pleads not guilty in HP case
News Patricia Dunn, the former chairman of HP, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to criminal charges that stemmed from her role in overseeing a probe into boardroom leaks. Prosecutors have said that Dunn drove the HP investigation, which began in 2005, in...
[November 16, 2006, 8:33]
HP settles disclosure case with SEC
News In March, a judge dismissed felony charges against Dunn and others who took part in the HP probe. HP and US regulators have settled allegations concerning an investigation that HP launched last year to uncover a boardroom leak.
[May 24, 2007, 9:53]
IT Forensics: When crime scene investigations go digital
News According to John Douglas, a forensic computing specialist at risk advisory consultancy, QCC Information Security, a sea change occurred in 2004 when Operation Ore hit the headlines and more than 600 UK sex offenders were convicted following a...
[April 24, 2006, 13:30]
HP faces crisis after mole hunt
News Perkins resigned in protest, despite the company determining he was not the source of the leak, two sources have confirmed. Angered by information leaked to CNET News.com, HP launched an investigation of its own board members that caused one...
[September 6, 2006, 16:10]



