Imagine my surprise when I bought an old laptop at an auction to find a bunch of Cisco files on there. One of them had a bunch of data about the SPVSS? organization/department including all of the salary, bonus, performance and share option details for around 4500 employees. I am telling you if those details became public there would be a LOT of very pissed off people I am sure. I want to publish it as a public service in order to teach these bozos a lesson as the way they seem to treat their staff is unbelievable. Maybe this would make them sit up and take notice that private data is PRIVATE and not to be bandied about in an unencrypted format. Where would be the best place to publish this? I am sure it would result in a massive sue-bomb if it became public. Lots of Israeli and American staff on there - nations not noted for sitting back and relaxing when personal data is being published on the internet.
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All this site is good for is FUD. Any truthful comments get deleted within a few hours, such as the one that mentioned Paris p--ngate.
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I think it is about time to publish. I will prepare it and post it on enough different places that they can never erase it from the internet. Just in time for them being sold - throw 4500 sue balls at them.
BTW the folder is dated from late 2014 so yes there were close to 4500 employees before this Seachange crew started with their magic.
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Where's the info?
Oh ye who doubt the sage will be punished in the afterlife...
This LT was unlocked and wide open.. it HAS an employee name on a sticky label on the lid - someone from SJ-10 according to the text, whatever that means. I won't be dropping them in though in any case they have probably already been fired.
It is gonna happen babes. I have the file and I will publish bits of it on Pastebin and Imgur in dribs and drabs just in time for a sue-ball to be made and thrown @IBC. Happy hunting for your own name. Americas is first then Israel as these two are the most litigious.
It is trivial to disable only because of the special rights you have, if these were taken away as part of a more restrictive policy, your ability to bypass any of the restrictions would be removed, but then so would the luxury you have of running a Mac.
...especially if you have half a brain and disable the remote management rubbish that IT tries to install - a trivial matter.
I agree that it was trivial to remove. But it's also against policy. So, you're telling the world that you, as a Cisco employee, care so little about protecting the company's proprietary info as well as personal data that you would remove the remote management software in violation of the company policy. Way to go! And you want to sue the company if your personal info is leaked?!? Sounds like you're the source of the problem.
And it WAS enforced, in so much as a dialog box kept opening up to prompt you to enable it IF you had not removed the remote management software.
I'll take Cisco's rubbish remote management over the remote management my current employer pushes. It's actually the same software, just different policies that happen to be much worse.
@OR4boAP-3vlk - absolutely NOT true. Users of MAC computers @Cisco have the option to enable FileVault but it is not enforced especially if you have half a brain and disable the remote management rubbish that IT tries to install - a trivial matter. Another shoddy implementation from Cisco. I hope the OP has some files and publishes them so they can be sued to oblivion. I wil certainly take legal action if my personal details are leaked in this way.
As an ex-Cisco employee, I would call this fake news as our new POTUS likes to say.
All Cisco owned assets are encrypted. Windows hosts running Windows 7 or higher have Bitlocker enabled. Mac hosts are supposed to have FileVault enabled.
If it was a company owned asset, then the employee took steps to by-pass Cisco policies and device management to disable the company enforced encryption. If it wasn't a company owned asset, well, there's not much to prevent employees from copying data they shouldn't and putting on their personal laptops.
Provide the laptop make & model & the hostname. I'd guess that any Cisco employee will know by your answers whether or not this is a fake post.
There's some encryption for laptop hars disks. So even if you somehow found a laptop that was used in Cisco, you wouldn't be able to read the contents, unless you have the decryption key. Also, more importantly, the total strength of SPVSS is probably more like 1500 people, not 4500 people. Looks like you're bluffing, isn't it.
Anyone here about management secretly grading employees using something called a 9-box grid?
Fake News, post anything you wish to prove it here ? How about a list of filenames ? Or better still put up some screenshots on imgur.com
Perhaps the laptop was stolen? With 100,000 people that happens once in a while, probably. You should post it, if you have it. Otherwise, we'll suspect you were the guys predicting the layoff of thousands just last week and is just butthurt.
Send it to Brad Reese at www.bradreese.com or to somebody at Network World. They will publish it while maintaining your anonymity.
Forward it to the press with you're story. Any tech or cyber security press would be interested as well as the mainstream press. No need to disclose the contents, the fact you have it is embarrassing enough!
b---s---. Pastebin or shut up.
Ya, OK Julian. Better post using TOR and VPN else you'll be hiding out in an Ecuadorian embassy too.
Post it if you have it...
Don't do that. You will only compromise those who are listed. I'd be more curious to know whose laptop that was.