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As the UK government introduces the new Cyber Security Strategy it may want to protect against those looking to use data scraping, a method one person used when attempting to look further into MPs expenses, it has been reported. According to John Naughton, in an article for the... Read More

Malware designed to steal passwords through the use of screen scraping would only benefit by having the classified information in the clear, it has been said. Raz Yalov, chief technology officer for 41st Parameter, made this assertion to The Tech Herald after the website reported... Read More

Australian programmers have created software that uses data scraping to set up free electronic programme guides, it has been revealed. According to The Age, thousands of Australians use these guides and most of the aforementioned software scrapes data from websites such as... Read More

2020-07-15 - How CAPTCHA got trashed Computerworld has an article about how CAPTCHA got trashed. It mentions products used to beat Craigslist anti-spam mechanism and how Cragslist try to fight back against spammers using phone verification. 2020-07-06 - Scraping case... Read More