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Penenberg's work has appeared in a wide variety of newspapers, magazines and websites, including The New York Times, Wired, Forbes, The Economist, Inc. and Playboy. He has covered everything from hackers, music and software piracy and corporate espionage to outing the Segway scooter and breaking the Stephen Glass story, which was made into a major motion picture. Penenberg has been interviewed on The Today Show, CNN's Moneyline, FoxNews, CNBC and MSNBC. Currently he is a Contributing Writer for Fast Company magazine.

All Eyes on Apple

September 12, 2007

Fast Company (cover story)

THIS PROMISES TO BE A JOYOUS HOLIDAY SEASON for Steve Jobs and the incandescent Apple. Over the past year, the company's numbers have been stunning: Sales are up 24%, earnings up 75%, margins topping 30%, stock price up 146%. The popularity of the iPod and its snazzy young cousin, the iPhone, has lifted other Apple products, helping boost market share in personal computers in the United States from 2% a few years ago to 8% this past quarter, with Apple leapfrogging Gateway to take third place behind Dell and Hewlett-Packard.

Hacking the iPhone

December 11, 2007

Fastcompany.com

WHILE RESEARCHING FAST COMPANY'S December/January cover story I ran across a startling claim: some computer security professionals were boasting that they could turn an iPhone into a piece of spyware that can intercept a target's voice mail and e-mail, hijack its Safari browser, and even surreptitiously record conversations, all without the owner's knowledge. H D Moore, Director of Security Research for BreakingPoint Systems, even posted a detailed primer.