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Security researchers gained greater federal legal protections over the past two years, but US state laws and China’s recently adopted vulnerability disclosure law pose threats.

Convicted copyright troll lawyer Paul Hansmeier wants to hire an undercover investigator to go after online pirates while he's in prison.

A federal judge has granted the Cayuga Nations motion to dismiss most counterclaims and complaints filed against it and its federally recognized leader, Clint Halftown, by defendants in a civil

What can a bustling electronic components bazaar in Shenzhen, China, tell us about building a better technology future? To researcher and hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang, it symbolizes the boundless motivation, excitement, and innovation that can be unlocked if people have the rights to repair, tinker...

Automated web scraping can be problematic. Just look at Clearview, which has leveraged open access to public websites to create a facial recognition program it now sells to government agencies. But web scraping can also be quite useful for people who don't have the power or funding government agencies and their private contractors have access…

Posts about naacp written by Tim Cushing and Techdirt

At the ShmooCon hacker conference, infosec attorney Harley Geiger warns that some state laws continue to threaten legitimate research—as does a recent Chinese regulation.

Authorities in the United States this week brought criminal hacking charges against three men as part of an unprecedented, international takedown targeting 15 different "booter" or "stresser" sites -- attack-for-hire services that helped paying customers launch tens of thousands of…

Most people who operate DDoS-for-hire services attempt to hide their true identities and location. Proprietors of these so-called “booter” or “stresser” services — designed to knock websites and users offline — have long operated in a legally murky area of…