The state of California wants to know if Hewlett-Packard's board chairman went a little too far investigating new media leaks. Pretexting involves duping a company in order to obtain confidential ...

Among the wide range of hacking techniques known collectively as social engineering, pretexting is a tactic that hinges on telling a compelling (and, spoiler alert, fake!) story. With pretexting, ...

Over the past year, a flurry of bills were introduced in the U.S. Congress that targeted pretexting. But each of the 10 bills identified here remains stuck somewhere in the legislative process. Not ...

California’s attorney general is investigating Hewlett-Packard. The probe comes in the wake of HP’s reported surveillance of board members that led to the company’s decision not to renominate George A ...

Executives from the nation’s largest wireless telephone companies told lawmakers Friday they should outlaw the practice of lying to get access to someone else’s phone records — also known as ...

Although the U.S. Congress adjourned on Saturday without acting on legislation to ban pretexting in the wake of the scandal involving Hewlett-Packard (HP), California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed ...

Story<BR><BR>Can we all agree that pretexting is bad? Apparently not; phone companies, private investigators, and the MPAA have argued against pretexting laws this year, and a comprehensive national ...

A U.S. judge ordered a Florida business connected to the 2006 Hewlett-Packard spying scandal to halt the sale of personal telephone records and ordered defendants in the case to pay more than $605,000 ...