- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- November 26th, 2018
Democrats Introduce Bill for Stopping Automated Grinch Bots from Ruining Xmas
People to also be able to buy promotional items during sales
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 2nd, 2018
California Governor Signs Bill Requiring Bots to Disclose Their True Identity
The new bill should prevent bots from influencing elections
- Mobile World
- By Alexandra Vaidos
- March 3rd, 2017
Facebook Redesigns the Persistent Menu in Messenger for Bot Developers
Facebook added more nested items and options
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 4th, 2016
Top 10 Cities by Total Bot Population (EMEA Region)
Istanbul has the most bots across all the EMEA region
- Server related
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 24th, 2016
18 Percent of All Web Traffic Is from Malicious Bots
Most bot traffic originates from the US and AWS' network
- Virus alerts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 12th, 2015
Latentbot Is the Next Step in Evolution for Stealthy Backdoors
Backdoor bot manages to remain hidden for two years
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- August 11th, 2014
Hackers Build Honeypots to Defeat FTC Robocaller
Federal Trade Commission seeks help to strengthen their systems
- Security
- By Eduard Kovacs
- April 24th, 2014
Bad Bot Traffic on the Rise, Distil Networks Warns
The company has released its “Bad Bot Landscape Report”
- Google News
- By Lucian Parfeni
- October 26th, 2013
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
- Security Blog
- By Eduard Kovacs
- May 8th, 2012
Botnet Source Code Reveals Anti-Analysis Functions
The bot terminates its process if network analysis tools are detected
- Spam Reports
- By Eduard Kovacs
- March 22nd, 2012
Twitter Flooded with “Doctor Who” Celebrity Clickjacking Scams
Each time something important happens, the spam bots are rolled out
- Spam Reports
- By Eduard Kovacs
- March 20th, 2012
Free Tibet Conversations Sabotaged by Twitter Bots
Bots are flooding #tibet and #freetibet hashtags on Twitter
- Security Blog
- By Eduard Kovacs
- December 7th, 2011
Pro-Kremlin Activists Launch Attack on Twitter
Bots posted 10 messages each second until they managed to block a communication channel
- Other Search Engines
- By Lucian Parfeni
- July 20th, 2009
Testing Is Ramping Up on Bing's New Crawler
Though there is no final schedule for it to take over most of the indexing
- Windows Live
- By Marius Oiaga
- November 28th, 2008
Microsoft to Discontinue Tool for Building Windows Live Messenger Bots
Come mid-2009
- PC Games
- By Andrei Dumitrescu
- October 3rd, 2008
Blizzard Wins World of Warcraft Bot Case
Gets some money
- Security
- By Denisa Ilascu
- September 5th, 2008
Facebook Application Turns Machines into Bots
Greek researchers prove how applications can be employed in hacks