Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday narrowed the reach of a federal computer fraud law that seeks to address hacking and other cybercrimes, siding with a former Georgia police officer who was ...

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, in the 6-3 opinion, wrote that the court would not interpret the phrase "exceeds authorized access" to criminalize every violation of a computer-use policy. (Associated ...

An individual who uses an authorized computer to access permissible areas of the computer no longer violates the “exceeds authorized access” clause of the CFAA, according to a new ruling. An ...

In computer programming, a scope is the context within a computer program in which a variable name or other identifier is valid and can be used, or within which a declaration has effect. Outside of ...

June 3 (UPI) --The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that accessing data for an improper reason when authorized to use a computer system does not violate federal cybercrime law. In a 6-3 decision, the ...