Tag: Adam Penenberg

  • The Black Market Code Industry

    [This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.] Adam Penenberg wrote an article titled “The Black Market Code Industry” for FastCompany in which he details his research of two HP employees that actively sold exploit code in their spare time, at least one selling exploits in HP’s own software. According to the article, HP knew…

  • Ulterior Motives (a look at shoddy journalism)

    [This was originally published on Hacker News Network (HNN) and mirrored on attrition.org.] Introduction Today, journalism has moved from shoddy to sleazy and demands correction and explanation. We are all aware of the deficiency in reporting on security and hacking and for those who have read stories in the past few months, you probably realize…