Democrats Introduce Bill for Stopping Automated Grinch Bots from Ruining Xmas

Democrats Introduce Bill for Stopping Automated Grinch Bots from Ruining Xmas

People to also be able to buy promotional items during sales

California Governor Signs Bill Requiring Bots to Disclose Their True Identity

California Governor Signs Bill Requiring Bots to Disclose Their True Identity

The new bill should prevent bots from influencing elections

Facebook Redesigns the Persistent Menu in Messenger for Bot Developers

Facebook Redesigns the Persistent Menu in Messenger for Bot Developers

Facebook added more nested items and options

Top 10 Cities by Total Bot Population (EMEA Region)

Top 10 Cities by Total Bot Population (EMEA Region)

Istanbul has the most bots across all the EMEA region

18 Percent of All Web Traffic Is from Malicious Bots

18 Percent of All Web Traffic Is from Malicious Bots

Most bot traffic originates from the US and AWS' network

Latentbot Is the Next Step in Evolution for Stealthy Backdoors

Latentbot Is the Next Step in Evolution for Stealthy Backdoors

Backdoor bot manages to remain hidden for two years

Hackers Build Honeypots to Defeat FTC Robocaller

Hackers Build Honeypots to Defeat FTC Robocaller

Federal Trade Commission seeks help to strengthen their systems

Bad Bot Traffic on the Rise, Distil Networks Warns

Bad Bot Traffic on the Rise, Distil Networks Warns

The company has released its “Bad Bot Landscape Report”

Google's New Captcha Knows You're a Human Before You Start Typing

Google's New Captcha Knows You're a Human Before You Start Typing

Google has revamped the system and now serves much easier CAPTCHAs to humans

Botnet Source Code Reveals Anti-Analysis Functions

Botnet Source Code Reveals Anti-Analysis Functions

The bot terminates its process if network analysis tools are detected

Twitter Flooded with “Doctor Who” Celebrity Clickjacking Scams

Twitter Flooded with “Doctor Who” Celebrity Clickjacking Scams

Each time something important happens, the spam bots are rolled out

Free Tibet Conversations Sabotaged by Twitter Bots

Free Tibet Conversations Sabotaged by Twitter Bots

Bots are flooding #tibet and #freetibet hashtags on Twitter

Pro-Kremlin Activists Launch Attack on Twitter

Pro-Kremlin Activists Launch Attack on Twitter

Bots posted 10 messages each second until they managed to block a communication channel

Testing Is Ramping Up on Bing's New Crawler

Testing Is Ramping Up on Bing's New Crawler

Though there is no final schedule for it to take over most of the indexing

  • PC Games
  • By Andrei Dumitrescu
  • October 3rd, 2008
Blizzard Wins World of Warcraft Bot Case

Blizzard Wins World of Warcraft Bot Case

Gets some money

Facebook Application Turns Machines into Bots

Facebook Application Turns Machines into Bots

Greek researchers prove how applications can be employed in hacks

 
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