Collaborate Disseminate
Facebook had a problem, way back in the simpler times that was 2019. Something like 533 million accounts had the cell phone number associated with the account leaked. It’s making …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: The Facebook Leak, The YouTube Leak, and File Type Confusion
First, 267m records were exposed & sold for 0.0002 cents each on the Dark Web. It was taken down but got reposted with yet more records. Continue reading 309 million Facebook users’ phone numbers (and more) found online
The long-awaited decision found that automated scraping of publicly accessible data likely doesn’t violate the CFAA. Continue reading LinkedIn can’t block public profile data scraping, court rules
In our industry, the term bot applies to software applications designed to perform an automated task at a high rate of speed. Typically, I use bots at Radware to aggregate data for intelligence feeds or to automate a repetitive task. I also spend a va… Continue reading Bots 101: This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
A teen is being charged for downloading 7k records, 250 of which weren’t properly redacted. Who’s to blame? Continue reading Is scraping files from a Freedom of Information website ‘hacking’?
The account recovery feature allowed for scraping of any public profile data. Also this: CA actually may have gotten 87m users’ data. Continue reading Hooray! Facebook ditches searching for people by phone number or email
When [Zeke Gabrielse] needed to book a flight, the Internet hive-mind recommended that he look into traveling with Southwest airlines due to a drop in fares late Thursday nights. Not one to stay up all night refreshing the web page indefinitely, he opted to write a script to take care of the tedium for him.
Settling on Node.js as his web scraper of choice, numerous avenues of getting the flight pricing failed before he finally had to cobble together a script that would fill out and submit the search form for him. With the numbers coming in, [Grabrielse] set up …read more
Continue reading Sticking With The Script For Cheap Plane Tickets