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I mentioned in the recent post about the TCS website hack that it isn't a great advertisement for a large tech company to put up a third party, (Honeybee Technology Inc. in this case) as its administrative contact on the WHOIS page. Here is the screenshot of that page on the day of the hacking:
Well, it seems that the 'Administrative Contact'. Honeybee Technology Inc was a listed Canadian company until trading in its shares was suspended because it was found to be part of a network of companies involved in one of Canada's largest financial frauds. In fact one of the main accused in the 'Mount Real' scam, Lino Matteo is still listed as the Administrative Contact for the Honeybee Technology Inc website (today's WHOIS screenshot here) although the site itself seems to be 'Under Construction.' Net-net it's an avoidable embarrassment, to continue being associated with these guys.
Btw, I'm obviously not accusing TCS of any wrongdoing here - a massive company works with tons of vendors and can't be accountable for all of them. I mean, what about all the companies who outsourced work to Satyam, (including the Times of India Group)? The point is that your WHOIS page is a globally accessible document and while smaller guys may like to pay for hiding the info, a large tech company like TCS should have a fancy sounding Admin Contact like "Tata Corporate Internet Team" or "TCS Webmaster Group" etc. shouldn't it? Well, I guess the company thinks otherwise, since it has changed its admin contact after the incident to yet another random third-party.
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