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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Regarding “Former HP chairwoman cleared in ‘pretext’ case” (March 15): In the headlines in the Business section, The Times used the word “pretext” and “pretexting,” both in quotes. The story itself ...

Learn how to spot a bogus story. 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's official: "pretexting" to buy, sell or obtain personal phone records--except when conducted by law enforcement or intelligence agencies--is now a federal crime that could yield prison time.