http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/09/cisco_cia_mole/ By Iain Thomson in San Francisco The Register 9th November 2012 Updated -- Cisco appears to be rather annoyed that one of its staff has been leaking memos to the press, and its vice president of global labs (and former CIA operative) Michael Quinn has sent a chilling email to staff warning he will hunt down the culprit. "The person or persons whom felt it was cool or correct to share this internal memo should now have the intestinal fortitude to stand up and admit that they did this, then resign," he said. "Now I know you do not have it in you to stand up and admit what you did, so I will now make you my 'hobby.' Ask around you will find out that I like to work on my hobbies." The fracas kicked off after a report last month that Cisco had lost a ten-year contract with California State University after its bid to upgrade the campus networks. The contract was won by Alcatel-Lucent, who put in a bid for $22m, compared to the offer from the incumbent Cisco of $122m, according to university staff. After the news broke, two Cisco executives who worked on the deal sent out an internal memo to staff denying that the proposed contract fee was almost six times the cost of the competition. The two said that they had been closely involved in the deal and didn’t recognize the figures involved, despite the fact that those figures came from CSU's IT department, which had reviewed the contracts. [...] ______________________________________________ Visit the InfoSec News Security Bookstore Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.orgReceived on Sun Nov 11 2012 - 22:13:27 PST
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