Alternative Data & Scraping

Dell Hell Redux — More Personal Info Stolen by ‘Menelik’
Richi Jennings | | Alternative Data & Scraping, api, API Abuse, API Attack, API Attack Detection, API Attack Protection, API attacks, API Authentication, API Authorization, API breaches, API Data Exposure, content scraping, data scraping, Dell, Dell Technologies, Menelik, Oracle, Oracle cloud, Oracle Cloud infrastructure, SB Blogwatch, scraper, scraper bots, Scrapers, Scraping, web scraping, web scraping attacks, webscraping, website scraping
Phish Ahoy! Hacker took advantage of Dell’s lack of anti-scraping defense ...
Security Boulevard

DC Court Ruling Reduces Webscraping Risk
Stacey Brandenburg | | Alternative Data, Alternative Data & Scraping, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), web scraping
In a decision that reduces some risk associated with webscraping, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that violating a website’s terms of service cannot alone be the ...

Ninth Circuit Rules that Scraping a Public Website is Likely Not a CFAA Violation
Marc Zwillinger | | Alternative Data, Alternative Data & Scraping, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)/Stored Communications Act (SCA)
In the highly-anticipated decision in the hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn case, the Ninth Circuit upheld the preliminary injunction against LinkedIn, prohibiting it from barring hiQ’s scraping of public profiles from its site ...