The Harvest Season is Just Around the Corner

One year ago an online dating site called Lovely-Faces.com was lunched with over 250,000 profiles. These profiles were scraped from Facebook without the permission of the users. This incident illustr...
Published Feb 02, 2012
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Or_Katz_68859
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Feb 05, 2012
The unique characteristic of this attack makes signatures mitigation ineffective therefore a special web scraping feature was developed. The default settings are good enough but it should be derived from the customer tolerance for being hit by this attack.