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Computer
Forensics Firm's Database Hacked
Computerworld - December
21, 2005
The customer database of computer
forensics firm Guidance Software Inc., a
provider of software that diagnoses computer
break-ins, has been hacked.
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Computer
Forensics Tools Maker Hacked
CNET
News - December 19, 2005
Guidance Software had to do a forensic
investigation on its own systems after a
hacker broke in and accessed records,
including credit card data, of thousands of
customers.
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Security
Software Firm's Customer Database Hacked
The
Washington Post - December 19, 2005
Guidance Software Inc. -- a leading
provider of software used to diagnose hacker
break-ins -- has itself been hacked,
exposing financial and personal data
connected to thousands of law enforcement
officials and network-security
professionals.
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Special Grand Jury to Probe Redden's $100M Laptop Plan
Marietta Daily Journal - October 7, 2005
Cobb District Attorney Pat Head was granted an order Thursday to empanel a special grand jury to investigate whether a Cobb School District bidding process for a massive laptop computer contract was manipulated in favor of Apple Computer.
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International Scam of Mystery
Private Equity Manager - September 2005
Michael Kessler, the president and chief executive officer of New York private investigation firm Kessler International, is working on at least two cases now in which con artists have used fake websites and other online lies to portray themselves as legitimate venture capital firms.
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Redden Resigns
Marietta Daily Journal - August 24, 2005
In a three-paragraph letter to school board Chairwoman Kathie Johnstone on Tuesday he sounded conciliatory and even gracious in announcing his resignation, effective immediately.
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Redden Defied Board on Laptop Chief's Deal
Marietta Daily Journal - August 17, 2005
Superintendent Joe Redden defied the school board in signing Chief Information Officer Kim Quinn to an illegal and unauthorized contract.
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Report Claims Redden Deceived Board, Public
Marietta Daily Journal - August 15, 2005
A beleaguered Cobb School Board emerged from a three-and-a-half-hour executive session at Atlanta Country Club and released an audit report by a New York firm that board Vice Chairwoman Dr. Teresa Plenge said revealed that "state law and policy had not been followed..."
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Judge Halts Redden's Massive Laptop Plans
Marietta Daily Journal - July 30, 2005
Cobb Schools Superintendent Joe Redden and his majority school board member supporters were dealt a major setback Friday when a Cobb Superior Court judge ruled that his $100.8 million laptop program greatly differs from technology plans voters were promised in the 2003 Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax referendum.
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Probes Postpone Teachers' Laptops
Marietta Daily Journal - July 27, 2005
Delivery of Cobb teachers' new Apple laptops has been delayed due to investigations into the laptop program.
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Cobb DA, N.Y. Auditing Firm to Investigate Selection of Apple
Marietta Daily Journal - July 15, 2005
The Cobb school board unanimously voted after a marathon six-hour meeting in executive session Thursday to call for two external investigations into the recommendation by Superintendent Joe Redden to award Apple Computer the bid for his controversial $100.8 million laptop program.
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Employment
experts believe that resume fraud among white-collar execs is
increasing
Long Island
Business News - April 15, 2005 Friday
A Notre Dame football coach did it. So did the physician who advises
Major League Baseball. Even a poet laureate of California did it.
All have embellished, inflated, garnished, whitewashed or flat-out
falsified their resumes.
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Board Releases Forensic Audit Statement
Fulton County Schools - March 23, 2005
In October of 2004, the Board also initiated a forensic audit and charged the firm of Kessler International with reviewing four projects: Alpharetta High School, Freemanville Road high school site, Sandtown Middle School and North Springs High School.
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Sorry, the Auditor Said, But We Want a Divorce
The New York Times - February 6, 2005
Sarbanes-Oxley, enacted in the wake of corporate scandals that began with Enron and WorldCom, is intended to improve the quality and transparency of financial reporting by requiring publicly traded companies and their outside auditors to bolster internal controls to better detect any improprieties.
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