Security News

Bots rigged Russian finale of ‘The Voice Kids’ talent show
2019-05-20 10:25

It turns out that robo-dialed calls accounted for 56.5% of the phone-in vote for the millionaire's daughter.

Billions of Malicious Bots Take to Cipher-Stunting to Hide
2019-05-15 14:50

Attackers have been tampering with TLS signatures at a scale never before seen using a technique called cipher-stunting.

As bad bots grow more sophisticated, so does the number of industries impacted by them
2019-04-23 05:00

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 Steal Accounts, Content and Skew the Web Ecosystem
2019-04-18 02:11

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...

ThreatList: Bad Bots Account for a Fifth of All Web Traffic, FinServ Hit the Worst
2019-04-17 15:34

The financial services industry sees nearly half of all website traffic coming from malicious bots.

Fighting Against Malicious Bot Attacks
2019-04-01 20:18

Franklin Jones of Cequence Describes the Growing ProblemMalicious bot attacks now account for nearly one-third of all Internet traffic, says Franklin Jones of Cequence, who describes why...

By 2025 workforce most likely to consist of humans and bots
2019-03-01 06:00

The workforce, workplace, and the technologies that support them will be so different by 2025 that enterprises need to provide global access and ensure continuous uptime now. That’s only one of...

Bot Protection Firm PerimeterX Raises $43 Million
2019-02-12 07:44

California-based web security company PerimeterX announced on Monday that it raised $43 million in a Series C funding round, which brings the total raised to date to $77.5 million. read more

Israel Seeks to Beat Election Cyber Bots
2019-02-01 15:45

Amy Spiro is one of many Israeli journalists who recently received a direct message on her Twitter account linking to a sensational news story. The sender, using the Jewish-sounding name "Bina...

Cequence Security awarded patent for detecting bot attacks
2019-01-23 01:30

Cequence Security has been awarded a patent for its ability to passively detect malicious bot attacks targeting web, mobile, and API applications, US Patent 10,135,904 for Network Attack Detection...