As businesses in New York and elsewhere begin to enter a second year of partially or fully closed offices and of dealing with a workforce operating remotely, an issue that was top-of-mind for much of ...

Under the Computer Fraud Abuse Act of 1986 (“CFAA”), anyone who “intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access” and thereby obtains computer information commits ...

This article addresses the significant issues concerning the "without authorization" element of the CFAA as illuminated by 'Van Buren' and comments on how the New York Court of Appeals dealt with a ...

A bill was passed yesterday by the state of Georgia that causes any unauthorized access to a computer to be considered "Unauthorized Computer Access" and "shall be punished for a misdemeanor of a high ...

A German court has charged a programmer investigating an IT problem with hacking and fined them €3,000 ($3,265) for what it deemed was unauthorized access to external computer systems and spying on ...

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has until Tuesday to decide whether to approve a dubious bill that would make it illegal to access a computer or network “without authority,” Wired reported, in what looks an ...