Security News

70% of businesses using bots to boost efficiency, only 5% govern their access to data
2018-12-05 15:00

As software bots spread throughout the enterprise, business leaders must control their access to sensitive information, according to a SailPoint report.

‘Grinch bots’ are ruining holiday shopping. Lawmakers hit back
2018-11-28 11:29

The bill would outlaw automated scripts that snap up discounted holiday must-haves so resellers can gouge people with exorbitant markups.

Cequence Security announces application security platform to stop bot attacks
2018-11-15 02:00

Cequence Security released Cequence ASP, an application security platform that provides a scalable defense against the growing number of bot attacks affecting today’s hyper-connected...

Bots and Botnets: Addressing the Security Challenges
2018-11-02 07:18

Malicious bots and botnets are becoming increasingly common and sophisticated, and enterprises need to address them in their risk assessments and security frameworks, says Akamai's Aseem Ahmed.

Bot Fighter Shape Security Raises $26 Million
2018-11-01 19:45

Shape Security, a provider of bot protection and anti-automation solutions, today announced that it has raised $26 million in growth capital, bringing the total raised by the Mountain View,...

Election security in the age of bots, operatives, and digital attacks
2018-10-24 13:10

Former Facebook CSO Alex Stamos tells us what he learned in 2016, and what comes next.

Repairnator bot finds software bugs, successfully submits patches
2018-10-22 11:30

Can a bot create valid, high-quality fixes for software bugs more rapidly than a human can, and get them accepted by human developers and permanently merged in the code base? A group of...

Phorpiex bots target remote access servers to deliver ransomware
2018-09-28 06:24

Threat actors are brute-forcing their way into enterprise endpoints running server-side remote access applications and attempting to spread the GandCrab ransomware onto other enterprise computers,...

The anatomy of fake news: Rise of the bots
2018-08-31 12:00

Spreading misinformation has become a mainstream topic to the extent that even the term ‘Twitter bot’ is a well-recognised term establishing itself into the modern lexicon. Whilst the term is well...

Loki Bot Attacks Target Corporate Mailboxes
2018-08-30 13:53

Loki Bot’s operators have been targeting corporate mailboxes with their spam messages, Kaspersky Lab reports. read more