Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)
Ransomware Remediation Contract Dispute Leads to Arrest, Suit in Georgia
Fitzgerald, Georgia is a small town in south-central Georgia primarily known for the fact that, in May of 1865, former Confederate president Jefferson Davis was captured by Union soldiers. Its main streets ...
Ethical Hackers Prevented $27B in Cybercrime
Ethical hackers proved their worth over the 14 months that the pandemic ravaged economies and organizations were at their most vulnerable, preventing $27 billion in cybercrime during the time when flaws threatened ...
Supreme Court Limits Scope of Computer Crime Law
Nathan Van Buren was a police officer in rural Georgia. As such, he had lawful access to both the National Crime Information Computer (NCIC) and the Georgia Crime Information Center (GCIC) with ...
DC Court Ruling Reduces Webscraping Risk
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
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 ...
