data scraping
API Abuse – Lessons from the Duolingo Data Scraping Attack
It’s been reported that 2.6 million user records sourced from the Duolingo app are for sale. The attacker apparently obtained them from an open API provided by the company. There’s a more ...
The LinkedIn Data Scraping Verdict — and Its Reversal
In October of last year, a ruling against LinkedIn by The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth District in San Francisco left many confused. How could the court rule in ...
Client-Side Security: A Win, Win, Win in Cyber Security Risk Mitigation
By Source Defense Cyber security is about risk mitigation. With headlines about ransomware attacks dominating media headlines over the past couple of years – and over the past few days – it ...
Facebook Vs. NYU and Transparency
On August 3, 2021, Facebook, showed off its full 800-pound gorilla physique by attempting to crush the work of two New York University (NYU) researchers, Laura Edelson and Damon McCoy and their ...
After Van Buren, are Data Scraping Cases Barred?
The federal computer crime law makes it both a criminal offense and a civil offense (you can sue for damages or loss) for someone to “access a computer without authorization” or to ...
Data Breaches vs. Data Leaks, FBI Exchange Server Controversy
This week Tom and Kevin are back with an all new episode! Data breaches vs. recent data leaks, and the controversy over the FBI operation conducted to remove web shells from compromised ...
California Federal Court Weighs In (Again) on Social Media Scraping
Social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn have collected personal information on hundreds of millions of subscribers. They have also promised those subscribers that their data will only be shared or ...
Scraping Attacks: Compromising Web Security, Impacting Business Continuity
We often see businesses devising ingenious ways to pull ahead of competitors in the hyper-competitive online business industry. From tiny startups to business giants such as Amazon and Walmart, companies today have ...
Oracle Fixes Critical Vulnerabilities in Business Applications
Oracle has released a new quarterly critical patch update (CPU) for its product portfolio, fixing 254 vulnerabilities across 20 product families. More than two-thirds of those flaws are located in business-critical applications ...
