Ex-CEO of Equifax Richard Smith is going to Washington next week to participate in the public flogging known as congressional hearings. I am sure that 143 million Americans, 400 thousand Brits and 100 thousand Canadians really want to hear about how he absolutely screwed up to this degree before he “retired”. Examples of this #EpicFail include hiring a CSO with no IT experience or not applying a patch for Apache Srtuts for months, or having a publicly accessible database with username of admin and the password of (you guessed it) admin. I could go on but you get the idea.
In any case, if you want to hear what he has to say, here’s the schedule of where he’s going in Washington next week:
- Tuesday, Oct. 3, 10:00 a.m., House Energy and Commerce Committee. Rayburn House Office Bldg. Room 2123.
- Wednesday, Oct. 5, 10:00 a.m., Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs. Dirksen Senate Office Bldg., Room 538.
- Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2:30 p.m., Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law. Dirksen Senate Office Bldg., Room 226.
- Thursday, Oct. 6, 9:15 a.m., House Financial Services Committee. Rayburn House Office Bldg., Room 2128.
I fully expect this to be a public flogging given the scale of the pwnage that took place. Thus this will be very interesting to watch on TV. Set your PVR and get the popcorn ready.