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An investigation's method of scrutinizing board members and journalists was "wrong" and has left the company red-faced. Full coverage: HP's boardroom drama Hurd memo: We will take the necessary action ...

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, ...

Before politicians go home for the year at the end of the week, the U.S. Senate may vote to generally prohibit telephone "pretexting," a stealthy and usually fraudulent investigative technique made ...

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Investigations weighs in on the Hewlett-Packard scandal with a hearing on the use of deceptive measures to obtain personal information, a practice called ...

Pretexting has long been a tactic used by private investigators and others to obtain personal information and records about people. Also known as "social engineering" in the hacker realm, it involves ...

When the Hollywood gumshoes do it, it’s considered good detective work. When a real private investigator’s consultant, who happens to have been hired by Hewlett-Packard’s chairwoman, does it – as was ...

Editor’s Note: This story is reprinted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld’s Macintosh Knowledge Center. Months after Xbox Live users began complaining of hacked accounts, ...

The Senate passed legislation last night that would make it a federal crime to obtain a person’s telephone records without permission, an act known as pretexting. The measure, which was approved by ...