After more than a year in appeals, Andrew Weev Auernheimers conviction has been vacated, overturning the earlier ruling that sentenced the trollish security researcher to 41 months in prison. The original conviction tried Auernheimer in New Jersey, but the appeals court found the venue to be totally unrelated to the case, as neither Auernheimer nor ATTs […]
(Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Friday threw out the conviction of a man accused of stealing the personal data of about 120,000 Apple Inc iPad users, including big-city mayors, a TV network news anchor and a Hollywood movie mogul. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the November 2012 conviction of Andrew […]
Like it or not, vulnerabilities are a fact of life in information security–and so are the people seeking them out. Yes, independent testing may be illegal without express permission but that doesn’t stop these code pillagers from sniffing out vulnerabilities and weaknesses in your web applications. And while many of them are attackers with malicious […]
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