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Sorry, Confidential Corporate Data Are Not Part of Your Severance

in News on November 24, 2009 at 6:30 am PT

Here’s a data point to consider amid the tech sector’s continuing job cuts. According to a new study by Cyber-Ark, many employees leaving their jobs aren’t above adding a little something to their separation packages: Confidential corporate data.
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God-Google-Satan: The Oneness

in News on December 16, 2008 at 5:00 am PT

“Everyone loves Google.” So began a 2001 Wired profile of the company and its “resolutely uncommercial” path to success. Everyone loves Google. Sounds like so much hyperbole now, but at the time it was essentially a truism. Eight years later, that’s no longer really the case. Today, Google seems a distorted reflection of the ideals that made it so beloved. No wonder it’s fallen off the TRUSTe/Ponemon Institute’s list of the top 20 most trusted companies in the United States.