• Pretexting is a type of social engineering attack that involves a situation, or pretext, created by an attacker in order to lure a victim into a vulnerable...
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    weapons of mass destruction as a pretext for the war in Iraq. A type of social engineering called pretexting uses a pretext to elicit information fraudulently...
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  • July 2024. The story of HP pretexting scandal with discussion is available at Davani, Faraz (14 August 2011). "HP Pretexting Scandal by Faraz Davani"....
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    recruited private investigators who used a spying technique known as pretexting. The pretexting involved investigators impersonating HP board members and nine...
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  • Casus belli (redirect from Pretexts for War)
    wars". A casus belli intentionally based on inaccurate facts is known as a pretext. This section outlines a number of the more famous and/or controversial...
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    use pretexting to obtain financial records about someone via the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. In California, it was already illegal to use pretexting to obtain...
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    Perkins's residential phone records were obtained through a method known as pretexting. AT&T confirmed that someone pretended to be Perkins, using his phone...
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    Aldous Leonard Huxley (/ˈɔːldəs/ AWL-dəs; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books...
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    phone — a phenomenon commonly known as pretexting. As Atlanta Journal Constitution noted: "There is no pretexting, the website says. It also states that...
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    related to drug possession, and uses a minor traffic infringement as a pretext to stop the driver. In the case of Whren, the defense used a "would-have"...
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  • information. It is similar in practice to so-called social engineering and pretexting, but has a more military focus to it. It was developed by Headley as an...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pretense or pretence may refer to: pretext pretexting (social engineering) "Pretense" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of Stargate...
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    identifiable information include: Financial Privacy Rule Safeguards Rule Pretexting Protection (Subtitle A: Disclosure of Nonpublic Personal Information,...
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  • Headley specialized in social engineering, a type of hacking which uses pretexting and misrepresentation of oneself in contact with targeted organizations...
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  • States blagging, a social engineering term sometimes used to refer to pretexting Blag (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    National Security Archive on 30 April 2001. Responding to a request for pretexts for military intervention by the Chief of Operations of the Cuba Project...
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  • and web beacons. In the U.S. Congressional Inquiry investigating the HP pretexting scandal it was revealed that HP security used an email tracking service...
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    volunteered to join the Russian forces and the Ottoman government used this as a pretext to issue the Tehcir Law (Law on Deportation), which authorised the deportation...
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  • A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies is a 2004 book by journalist James Bamford that takes a highly critical...
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    false flag attacks and trying to provoke retaliation, to give Russia a pretext for invading. On 17 February, Russian proxy forces shelled a kindergarten...
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    insurgency, the United States used the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident as a pretext for increasing its contribution of military advisers. US forces became...
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    Empire Hungarian Revolutionary Army Kingdom of Hungary Russian Empire Pretext April Laws Major battles Pákozd Schwechat Mór Kápolna Battles of Komárom...
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  • the Senate committee and claims that their previous meeting served as a pretext to help Ethan expose and shut down The Syndicate, convincing the committee...
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    coming-of-age and subsequent coronation deprived them of the Frondeurs' pretext for revolt. The Fronde thus gradually lost steam and ended in 1653, when...
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    violations in Andijan are invented by the enemies of Uzbekistan as a convenient pretext for intervention in the country's internal affairs. Male and female homosexuality...
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  • as: Burp Suite Nessus W3af Social engineering tactics such as: Phishing Pretexting Training Platforms Vulnerability research The methods identified exploit...
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    succession crisis of 1580. Philip II of Spain claimed the throne, under the pretext that his mother was a Portuguese princess, Isabella of Portugal, the second...
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    dictatorship. The show examines the impositions on civil liberties under the pretext of greater defense against outside threats which aid its rise, and the...
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    November to Georgy Chicherin, Lenin judged that incident "a very convenient pretext" for the Soviets to "kick at Mussolini and have everyone (Vorovsky and...
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    reaching an agreement with the opposition, the coup took place on the pretext of unrest. Bhutto had intelligence within the Army, and officers like Major-General...
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