It’s my First Amendment right to scrape publicly available face images, its CEO says. Besides, we’re just doing what Google Search does.
Tag Archives: CFAA
Ubisoft sues DDoS-for-hire operators for ruining game play
The network of sites and services run by the alleged operators target the Rainbow Six Siege game, selling attacks to cheating players.
LinkedIn can’t block public profile data scraping, court rules
The long-awaited decision found that automated scraping of publicly accessible data likely doesn’t violate the CFAA.
Capital One cryptojacking suspect indicted
The former software engineer allegedly created scanners to look for misconfigured servers rented from a cloud computing company.
More than 2m AT&T phones illegally unlocked by bribed insiders
The alleged, now indicted ringleader paid more than $1m in bribes to insiders who planted malware and hardware for remote unlocking.
Apple sued for ‘forcing’ 2FA on accounts
Time is money, baby: Jay Brodsky claims that Apple’s 2FA “intermeddling” takes minutes out of his day, causing “economic loss.”
FBI wants to keep “helpful” Mirai botnet authors around
The young men behind the powerful IoT device botnet have been working undercover with law enforcement since they were first fingered.
Police dog sniffs out USB drive to snare school hacker
Police traced an “electronic trail” to the suspect’s house where the USB drive was hidden.
Jury finds former journalist guilty of aiding Anonymous in media hacking case
Matthew Keys was convicted after an eight-day trial in which the jury heard about how Keys used an internet chat relay forum to recruit hackers into his scheme.
‘Aaron’s Law’ back in Congress to bring “long overdue” fix of US hacking law
The proposed overhaul of the infamous Computer Fraud and Abuse Act would focus penalties on malicious computer crime.