February 07, 2020

Facebook, Google, YouTube order Clearview to stop scraping faceprints

It's my First Amendment right to scrape publicly available face images, its CEO says. Besides, we're just doing what Google Search does.

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January 22, 2020

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.

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September 11, 2019

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.

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September 02, 2019

Capital One cryptojacking suspect indicted

The former software engineer allegedly created scanners to look for misconfigured servers rented from a cloud computing company.

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August 08, 2019

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.

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February 12, 2019

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."

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September 20, 2018

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.

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May 15, 2018

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.

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February 28, 2018

“Misguided” hacking bill threatens to ice security researchers, say critics

The bill could criminalize security researchers for non-malicious poking around.

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