Hewlett-Packard's admission that it spied on its own board of directors and journalists has cast a spotlight on the underground market for personal information. But HP is not alone: There is a ...

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, ...

Had regulators taken this action a couple of years ago there’s a good chance the HP spy scandal never would have happened. Last week, in an effort to minimize the type of pretexting (read: stealing of ...

Fiorina originally had called for the boardroom leak investigation that ultimately spiraled out of control and embroiled HP in a scandal that has produced criminal investigations and a Congressional ...

WASHINGTON - 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 ...

NEW YORK — Although the boardroom scandal at Hewlett-Packard Co. made the practice more widely known, buying phone records or other personal information obtained by "pretext" calls appears to have ...

California prosecutors agreed today to a plea deal in the Hewlett-Packard Co. “pretexting” scandal, reducing a series of felony charges to a misdemeanor for Patricia Dunn, HP’s former chairwoman and ...

Two U.S. representatives have introduced a law that would give the U.S. Federal Trade Commission the authority to investigate and prosecute imposters who gain access to other people’s private ...

No sense pointing the finger at Hewlett-Packard anymore; we have Congress and the FBI to do that. But I did want to discuss the “I didn’t know what my employees/vendors/executive staff were doing” ...

Legislation that would allow the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to seek civil penalties against businesses that obtain personal data under false pretenses may soon get a vote in the U.S. House of ...