Collaborate Disseminate
By Owais Sultan
At its core, web scraping involves automatically extracting data from websites, enabling individuals and organizations to obtain valuable…
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By Habiba Rashid
The incident led to the publication of data on Irish police, sitting judges, prison officers, social workers, journalists, and others, leading to a spike in scam calls and texts in Ireland.
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Facebook filed a lawsuit against a Ukrainian man in a federal court Friday for allegedly using third-party services to gather information about 178 million users, then selling that information. Defendant Alexander Solonchenko is accused of using automated tools in 2018 and 2019 to retrieve information about users by looking up their phone numbers through Facebook’s Messenger Contact Importer. Solonchenko in 2020 started advertising the Facebook data for sale on RaidForum, a marketplace for data leaks where he had sold data from other private companies, the lawsuit says. He sold the data in 2021. The social media giant argues that Alexander Solonchenko violated Facebook’s terms of service by “using automated means…or attempt[ing] to access data you don’t have permission to access.” The company now is seeking an injunction preventing Solonchenko from accessing Facebook and its products as well as an injunction that would stop Solonchenko from selling or distributing any data […]
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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 tool Ad Observer. Facebook said the project was scraping … Continue reading Facebook Vs. NYU and Transparency
Facebook shut down the accounts of researchers at New York University’s Ad Observatory who were studying misinformation, saying the team of experts had violated the company’s policies on automated collection of user data. The researchers argue that the social media giant shut down their access because their research, which has focused on misleading political advertisements and vaccine misinformation, has drawn negative attention to the company. The shutdown builds on years of tension between researchers and the platform. Researchers argue that they deserve special exemptions from Facebook’s policies banning the automatic collection of data from the platform because it holds valuable insights into how the company influences democracy and social issues in the U.S. “Facebook is silencing us because our work often calls attention to problems on its platform. Worst of all, Facebook is using user privacy, a core belief that we have always put first in our work, as a […]
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By Waqas
LinkedIn has not suffered data breach but the records being sold are collected through data scraping technique.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: A hacker is selling 700 million LinkedIn users accounts
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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 “exceed authorized access” to a computer, and then do certain proscrib… Continue reading After Van Buren, are Data Scraping Cases Barred?
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 Microsoft Exchange servers. ** Links mentioned on the show ** Face… Continue reading Data Breaches vs. Data Leaks, FBI Exchange Server Controversy
By Waqas
The data was leaked earlier today on an infamous hacker forum without users’ Facebook accounts passwords.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook data of 500M+ users from 106 countries leaked online
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By Sudais Asif
The developer is a Portuguese company that Facebook claims developed malicious Chrome extensions allowing data scraping.
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