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, ...

Editor -- While The Chronicle's coverage of the misdeeds of Hewlett-Packard's board has been tremendously revealing, I must object to the continued use of the term "pretexting." It is clear that ...

WASHINGTON--Internal memos released Thursday during a congressional probe of Hewlett-Packard shed more light on how the company's investigators surreptitiously obtained phone records. Attorneys for ...

Prosecutors have filed "pretexting" charges in the first cases brought under a federal law passed in 2006 in the wake of the Hewlett-Packard spying scandal. Pretexting is a method in which a ...

In the immediate aftermath of the revelations of the Hewlett-Packard spying scandal, outraged legislators on Capitol Hill promised to do something about the evils of pretexting — the shady practice of ...

Request comes as criminal charges still hang over the head of former HP chairman and others in connection with spying campaign. Greg Sandoval covers media and digital entertainment for CNET News.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

C-SPAN is testing some improvements to our website and we'd like to ask for your help. Please click here to try out our new video viewing page (you can switch back at any time). 2006-09-30T01:08:53-04 ...

Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Google, as the most prominent company on the Internet defends its search juggernaut while expanding into nearly anything it thinks possible. He has ...