5 posts and columns on pretexting

Former HP Chairman Patricia Dunn, Central Figure in Pretexting Case, Dies

in News on December 5, 2011 at 1:23 pm PT

Dunn resigned after an internal investigation into leaks went badly wrong.
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Silicon Valley’s Tom Perkins — Who Quit HP Board Over Phone Hacking — Backs News Corp. Execs in New Scandal

in Media on July 19, 2011 at 12:02 am PT

Last time, the legendary VC dumped his directorship in indignation over HP’s spying of reporters’ phone records. This time, the News Corp. board member has a different view.
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HP Announces Pretexting Scandal 2.0

in News on August 16, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

Pretexted Reporters to Pen New Introduction to Fifth Printing of 'The HP Way'

in News on August 16, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

“Colossally stupid.” That’s what former California Attorney General Bill Lockyer once said of Hewlett-Packard’s Cold War-style board-leak investigation. And it’s as apt a description today as it was when he first uttered it last September. Because though nearly a year has passed, the scandal over the company’s ill-starred counterintelligence operation still hasn’t subsided. Yesterday a [...]

Pretexted Reporters to Pen New Introduction to Fifth Printing of ‘The HP Way’

in News on August 16, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

“Colossally stupid.” That’s what former California Attorney General Bill Lockyer once said of Hewlett-Packard’s Cold War-style board-leak investigation. And it’s as apt a description today as it was when he first uttered it last September. Because though nearly a year has passed, the scandal over the company’s ill-starred counterintelligence operation still hasn’t subsided. Yesterday a [...]