K12953: A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the BIG-IP ASM Web Scraping feature

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"2.6 million DuoLingo account entries" up for sale

Not a week goes by where we dont see an example of data scraping causing concern for both business and folks at home. The latest target happens to be popular language platform DuoLingo, who is currently digging into a forum post concerning data related to its customer accounts. Scraping data for...

"Untraceable" surveillance firm sued for scraping Facebook and Instagram data

Days after Meta achieved victory after suing the NSO Group for Computer Fraud and Abuse Act charges, Meta filed a lawsuit against surveillance company Voyager Labs for violations of its Terms and Policies and California law. According to court documents, Voyager Labs created 38,000 fake accounts ...

Twitter Scraping Breach: 209 Million Accounts Leaked on Hacker Forum

By Waqas The data was collected through web scraping techniques however some sites are reporting it as a "Twitter data breach," or " Twitter being hacked." This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Twitter Scraping Breach: 209 Million Accounts Leaked on Hacker Forum...

The World Cup: Prime Time for Sports Fans and Cybercriminals

From November 20 to December 18, fans from all over the world are tuned into the World Cup tournament in Qatar. While this is a major event for sports fans, it’s also prime time for bad actors. Large sporting events lead to increased levels of activity across sports and gambling sites, along with...

Meta Fined €265 million in Facebook Data Scraping Case in the EU

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. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Meta Fined €265 million in Facebo...

How web data is leading US cybersecurity to unreached possibilities

By Owais Sultan Businesses across the United States are using web scraping, or web data collection, infrastructure as a first line… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How web data is leading US cybersecurity to unreached possibilities...

Fake CISO Profiles on LinkedIn Target Fortune 500s

Someone has recently created a large number of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer CISO roles at some of the worlds largest corporations. Its not clear whos behind this network of fake CISOs or what their intentions may be. But the fabricated LinkedIn identities are...

CVE-2022-39217

some-natalie/ghas-to-csv GitHub Advanced Security to CSV is a GitHub action which scrapes the GitHub Advanced Security API and shoves it into a CSV. In affected versions this GitHub Action creates a CSV file without sanitizing the output of the APIs. If an alert is dismissed or any other custom...

Is it Illegal to Scrape a Website for Content?

Web scraping is the process of using bots to extract information from a website. In recent years, the debate over web scraping is growing more complex as business intelligence and data privacy issues arise. The practice of web scraping has gone on for nearly as long as there have been websites. T...

US Websites Targeted by 40% of the Bad Bot Traffic Worldwide

Bad bot attacks are often the first indicator of fraudulent activity targeting your website. This activity may be over-the-top, like validating stolen user credentials and credit card information to later be sold on the dark web or scraping proprietary data to gain a competitive advantage. Bot...

Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service

Microleaves, a ten-year-old proxy service that lets customers route their web traffic through millions of Microsoft Windows computers, recently fixed a vulnerability in their website that exposed their entire user database. Microleaves claims its proxy software is installed with user consent, but...

Five Ways the Gaming & Gambling Industry is Targeted by Bad Bots

Let’s play a game of chance: What are the odds that your gaming website is being targeted by bad bots? Imperva research suggests they’re higher than you may think. Imperva’s 2022 Bad Bot Report reveals that 53.9 percent of traffic to gaming and gambling websites comes from bad bots. With the...

Natural Language Processing and “Mindful” AI Drive More Sophisticated Bad Bot Attacks

The evolution from human to bot attacks Over the last several years of my career in cyber security, I have been fortunate to work with professionals who researched and developed new cyber security detection and prevention solutions that block high-end cyber attacks. Initially, these attacks were...

Fb_Friend_List_Scraper - OSINT Tool To Scrape Names And Usernames From Large Friend Lists On Facebook, Without Being Rate Limited

OSINT tool to scrape names and usernames from large friend lists on Facebook, without being rate limited. Getting started: Install using pip: python -m pip install fb-friend-list-scraper Script is now installed as fbfriendlistscraper Run with -h or --help to show usage information. Usage: usage:...

Evasive Bots Drive Online Fraud – 2022 Imperva Bad Bot Report

The 2022 Imperva Bad Bot Report is now available. The report is the ninth annual in-depth analysis of bot traffic, created with data collected from Impervas global network throughout the past year by the Imperva Threat Research Team. Bad bots are software applications that run automated tasks wit...

Requests-Ip-Rotator - A Python Library To Utilize AWS API Gateway's Large IP Pool As A Proxy To Generate Pseudo-Infinite IPs For Web Scraping And Brute Forcing

A Python library to utilize AWS API Gateway's large IP pool as a proxy to generate pseudo-infinite IPs for web scraping and brute forcing. This library will allow the user to bypass IP-based rate-limits for sites and services. X-Forwarded-For headers are automatically randomised and applied unles...

It’s legal to scrape public data—US appeals court

Web scraping—the automated extraction of data from websites—has been around for a long time. Simultaneously cursed and praised, with nobody being able to quite land the decisive blow about whether it should be allowed, one way or another. This may have changed, thanks to a recent US appeals court...

Imperva is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Bot Management, Q2 2022

We are thrilled to announce that Imperva has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Bot Management, Q2 2022 report – a trusted source for technology buyers that helps security and risk professionals select the right vendor for their needs in a technology marketplace. The report offers a...

Improve Your Hacking Skills with 9 Python Courses for Just $39

For anyone with interest in cybersecurity, learning Python is a must. The language is used extensively in white hat hacking, and professionals use Python scripts to automate tests. It also has a use in the "soft" side of cybersecurity — like scraping the web for compromised data and detecting bug...