Meta targets user information, database scraping in bug bounty expansion
Meta has announced an expansion to its bug bounty platform to include vulnerabilities that can be abused for data scraping. On Wednesday, the company...
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Facebook to Pay Hackers for Reporting Data Scraping Bugs and Scraped Datasets
Meta Platforms, the company formerly known as Facebook, has announced that it’s expanding its bug bounty program to start rewarding valid reports of scraping...
Internal Facebook email reveals intent to frame data scraping as ‘normalized, broad industry issue’
An internal email accidentally leaked by Facebook to a journalist has revealed the firm’s intentions to frame a recent data scraping incident as “normalized”...
Facebook sues two Chrome extension devs for scraping user data
Image: Kon Karampelas Facebook filed a lawsuit today in Portugal against two Portuguese nationals for developing browser extensions that scraped user data from Facebook...
Facebook sues two Chrome extension makers for scraping user data
Image via Alex Haney Facebook has filed a lawsuit today against two companies for creating and distributing malicious browser extensions that scraped user data...
A Simple Web Scraping Solution for Penetration Testers
Did you ever try extracting any information from any website? Well, if you have then you have surely enacted web scraping functions without even...
ACCC says bank screen scraping warnings are not anti-competitive
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has said warnings to consumers from banks over the use of screen scraping are not designed to...
Fintechs divided on screen scraping ban
Founding director of The Regtech Association and Verifier CEO, Lisa Schutz, has urged for the Australian government to follow in the footsteps of the...