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...

July 2024. The story of HP pretexting scandal with discussion is available at Davani, Faraz (14 August 2011). "HP Pretexting Scandal by Faraz Davani"....

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...

recruited private investigators who used a spying technique known as pretexting. The pretexting involved investigators impersonating HP board members and nine...

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...

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...

identifiable information include: Financial Privacy Rule Safeguards Rule Pretexting Protection (Subtitle A: Disclosure of Nonpublic Personal Information,...

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...

phone — a phenomenon commonly known as pretexting. As Atlanta Journal Constitution noted: "There is no pretexting, the website says. It also states that...

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"...

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...

Aldous Leonard Huxley (/ˈɔːldəs/ AWL-dəs; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pretense or pretence may refer to: pretext pretexting (social engineering) "Pretense" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of Stargate...

States blagging, a social engineering term sometimes used to refer to pretexting Blag (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

Empire Hungarian Revolutionary Army Kingdom of Hungary Russian Empire Pretext April Laws Major battles Pákozd Schwechat Mór Kápolna Battles of Komárom...

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...

English Channel. 1931 – Imperial Japan instigates the Mukden incident as a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria. 1934 – The Soviet Union is admitted to...

originates from children using the pretend roles of doctor and patient as a pretext for such an examination. However, whether or not such role-playing is involved...

November to Georgy Chicherin, Lenin judged that incident "a very convenient pretext" for the Soviets to "kick at Mussolini and have everyone (Vorovsky and...

was deceived into a scam center in Myanmar by a fraud group under the pretext of "going to Thailand for filming". After Wang Xing lost contact, his girlfriend...

Headley specialized in social engineering, a type of hacking which uses pretexting and misrepresentation of oneself in contact with targeted organizations...

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...

insurgency, the United States used the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident as a pretext for increasing its contribution of military advisers. US forces became...

1938 by a Polish Jewish teenager, Herschel Grynszpan, which provided a pretext for Kristallnacht, "The Night of Broken Glass" on 9–10 November 1938. Historians...

Consciousness, Columbia University Press, 2010 pp. 215–16, n. 22: 'The pretext later invoked for the shootings was that the Palestinians inside the Haram...

having good relations with Geiseric, in order to prevent him from having a pretext for attacks on Sicily, or Sardinia, or Italy itself. It is suspected that...

and variations have also been made and exhibited under similar names and pretexts. P. T. Barnum exhibited the original in Barnum's American Museum in New...

Sanjay Raggad, Sadhu and Chhota Rajan himself, entered the arena on the pretext of retrieving the ball. After doing so, they walked right up to Kunju,...

000 innocent protesters were massacred by Zionists," which gave him a pretext to reject any further compromise with the government. The Shah himself...

Communist coup d'état as well a pretended state of "social chaos" became pretexts for a coup. Franco himself along with General Emilio Mola had stirred an...