Security News

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

Black Hat 2018: Sneaker bots and their challenges
2018-08-17 16:29

Josh Shaul, vice president of web security at Akamai, sat down with TechRepublic's Dan Patterson at Black Hat 2018 to speak about sneaker sales' market and after-market.

Black Hat 2018: Sneaker bots and the challenges they present
2018-08-09 18:24

Josh Shaul, vice president of web security at Akamai, sits down at Black Hat 2018 to speak about sneaker sales' market and after-market.

Researchers to release open source tools to identify Twitter bots at scale
2018-08-06 19:48

Duo Security published technical research and methodology detailing how to identify automated Twitter accounts, known as bots, at a mass scale. Using machine learning algorithms to identify bot...

Would a bill banning bots do more harm than good?
2018-07-26 09:36

According to the bill as it stands now, it would be okay to use a bot as long as it discloses that it is a bot, otherwise it's "unlawful".

Robo-drop: Factory bot biz 'leaks' automakers' secrets onto the web
2018-07-23 23:47

Assembly line 'droid builder latest to be accused of leaving rsync wide open on the internet Yet another organization has allegedly been caught accidentally exposing more than 100GB of sensitive...