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A recently detected attack campaign is attempting to ensnare Elasticsearch clusters into a distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet, Trend Micro reports. The multi-stage attacks leverage...
Instead of enriching Google, try making a market for click work Analysis Internet companies depend on free labor. Companies like Amazon, Facebook and Google rely upon content creators who give...
As most technologies, bots can be used for good and bad purposes, and the information security industry is doing its best to minimize the adverse effects of the latter activities. Bots everywhere...
Thanks to fruitful collaboration between language scholars and machine learning specialists, a new application that can detect Twitter bots independent of the language used was developed by...
Cequence Security's Carl Gustas on Why These Bots Are a Growing ThreatOrganizations and their applications are under attack from automated bots and bad actors. And many of these attacks are...
Cybersecurity solutions firm Imperva announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire Distil Networks, an Arlington, Virginia-based provider of bot detection and mitigation solutions for an...
It turns out that robo-dialed calls accounted for 56.5% of the phone-in vote for the millionaire's daughter.
Attackers have been tampering with TLS signatures at a scale never before seen using a technique called cipher-stunting.
Bot attack sophistication continues to evolve, as advanced attackers learn to adapt their techniques in order to invalidate existing defense tactics, according to Distil Networks. The report...
Bad bots are a continuing problem. Good bots, those that perform welcome and benign activities -- such as search engine crawlers like Googlebot and Bingbot -- are welcome. Bad bots, those that...