The ongoing Hewlett-Packard pretexting case has made many people even more painfully aware that their privacy, especially their online privacy, should be of paramount importance. Wired magazine is ...

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, ...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has established rules that prohibit telephone and mobile phone carriers from releasing customer records over the phone without a password. In part, the ...

The Federal Communications Commission hopes to prevent data burglaries with a set of new regulations for phone companies aimed at preventing the fraudulent practice called "pretexting." On Monday, the ...

Two U.S. representatives have introduced a law that would give the U.S. Federal Trade Commission the authority to investigate and prosecute imposters who gain access to other people’s private ...

Protecting people from privacy invasions and identity theft by banning "pretexting" -- the practice of impersonating someone to gather confidential information about them -- is the goal of SB 1666 by ...

Cell phone records are for sale, and some people want mobile operators to do more to protect sensitive customer information. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering ...

After news reports early this year revealed how remarkably easy it was to unearth someone else's phone records, politicians vowed quick action on new legislation. "There needs to be a federal law that ...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has prohibited telephone and mobile phone carriers from releasing customer records over the phone without a password in an effort to protect against the ...

On behalf of the ACLU, a non-partisan organization with hundreds of thousands of activists and members and 53 affiliates nation-wide, we urge you to vote “no” when S. 2389, the Protecting Consumer ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. The Federal ...