101 days ago by Kit Dotson

It’s the oldest trick in the book in the security industry: talking your way through corporate security measures. Popular media like movies and television shows portray hacking as a celebrated enterprise of geeks behind glowing computer screens who never make any sort of human contact except for in ...

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163 days ago by admin

Filed under: Company News, Hewlett-Packard Five years after tech giant Hewlett-Packard ( HPQ) found itself at the center of a headline-grabbing pretexting scandal, DailyFinance has learned that federal authorities have expanded the scope of their prosecution to include other potential defendants. In ...

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164 days ago by Latif Lewis Williams

Filed under: Company News, Hewlett-Packard Five years after tech giant Hewlett-Packard ( HPQ) found itself at the center of a headline-grabbing pretexting scandal, DailyFinance has learned that federal authorities have expanded the scope of their prosecution to include other potential defendants. In ...

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165 days ago by admin

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199 days ago by Wendy Akbar

Imagine the following eloquent cross-examination: ATTORNEY SAM: Good morning, Witness. I am Sam. Do you like green eggs and ham? WITNESS: I do not like them, Sam-I-am. ATTORNEY SAM: Would you eat them in a house? WITNESS: I would not eat them in a house. ATTORNEY SAM: Would you eat them with a mouse ...

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206 days ago by Kara Swisher

Back in 2006, one of the most dramatic moments of the “pretexting” scandal at Hewlett-Packard was when a very high-profile board member — legendary Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tom Perkins — quit in indignation over the company’s efforts to obtain the phone records of reporters. “I resigned sol ...

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211 days ago by krolladmin

At this time of year, travel-related identity theft gets a lot of attention, and with good reason. The increase in travelers means more opportunity for thieves, who know to step up their activities during the summer months – such as the recent increase in hotel pretexting that the Better Business Bu ...

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366 days ago by stone

Why waste your time trying to break passwords and encryptions when you can so easily social engineer. Social engineering can be defined as obtaining information, gaining access or making the target perform certain actions using psychological tricks on a person rather than breaking into a system. Hac ...

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