When HP offered to send me a workstation-class 17-inch laptop to review, I thought it would be fun—who wouldn't want to play with a loaded-to-the-gills lapzilla? I told them to give me a maxed-out model and I'd put it through its paces. When the laptop actually arrived, though, I realized that I'd gotten far more hardware than I'd expected to receive.
ViaForensics researcher Sebastian Guerrero recently released a report in which he describes a number of ways attackers could turn your boring, humdrum printer against you. According to his findings, potential vulnerabilities range from having to reset your printer (annoying) to the breach of encrypted documents (terrifying).
The HP boardroom spying scandal once transfixed the national media. It sparked Congressional hearings and lawsuits, and it changed the law. But it ended on Thursday in a mostly empty San Jose, California courtroom with a three-month conviction for Bryan Wagner, the low-level foot soldier who called up telephone companies under false pretenses to obtain the telephone records of HP board members, journalists and their families.
Could Hewlett-Packard trump the iPad?
With Windows 8 general release due on October 26, it's a good opportunity to take a look at the competition coming down the pike.
In this case, from Apple's Silicon Valley neighbor, HP. It took way too long -- Apple announced the iPad in 2010 -- but HP now has a real iPad alternative -- the Envy x2. Or, put another way, should I think about swapping my iPad for the x2? Personal musings aside, HP has a different design philosophy from Apple -- so it's not simply a question (for me at least) of which device is better spec for spec.
Hewlett-Packard is rolling out six new enterprise security offerings, continuing to build upon HP's security strategy that was introduced last year.
Rebecca Lawson, director of Worldwide Security Initiatives at HP, explained via telephone last week that enterprise customers are having a hard time with security because it's complicated and threats are more complex, making them harder to find before it's too late.
TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) has published a number of five advisories to reveal the existence of serious security holes that affect HP products. The vulnerabilities haven’t been addressed, but since the 180-day deadline appointed by ZDI expired, the flaws have been made public.
Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday announced a US$8.9 billion loss for its third quarter ended July 31 due to writedowns and weak hardware sales and also said full-year results would be at the low end of its previous guidance.
Earlier this month, HP said it would take an $8 billion "impairment of goodwill" writedown against its services division. "Goodwill" refers to less tangible assets, such as brand strength, that are considered when figuring out a company's total value. HP's $13.9 billion acquisition of services provider EDS has been roundly criticized as too costly.
HP has released the source code of the webOS platform’s core application stack. The company also opened the code of Luna, the webOS System Manager. The code is available for download from the GitHub project hosting site. The latest code drop was announced this week in a blog entry. Alongside details about the latest code, HP also discussed the roadmap of the Open webOS project.
A group of former employees at HP TippingPoint Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) have defected and formed a new company that will be involved with buying the rights to zero-day software vulnerabilities.
The new company, called Exodus Intelligence, was founded by Aaron Portnoy and a group of ex-ZDI researchers who suddenly left HP TippingPoint a few months ago around the time HP was preparing for a massive round of layoffs.
Hewlett-Packard is poised to eliminate as many as 30,000 jobs to compensate for dwindling demand for personal computers as more people connect to the Internet on smartphones and tablets, according to reports published Thursday.
