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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn is scheduled to make her first court appearance today to face charges filed against her in the wake of the H-P ...

"Some are suggesting there are ambiguities in the law," said Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat. "This is absolutely absurd." Members stated that HP's defense was unbelievable and former Board Chair ...