A new report from IT security company Imperva indicates that COVID-19 helped give birth to a historic amount of nonhuman activity on the Internet. The report is based on global customer data from the ...

“I love bots” feels like a controversial statement now, given the rise of troll farms deploying them and the proliferation of egg accounts spreading bad information or engaging in harassment. Even if ...

The internet, as it stands, is a global system of interconnected computer networks that allows humans to interact with each other, do business, gain knowledge, and be entertained. Google allowed us to ...

Could internet memes be new heroes in the war against web bots? Researchers at the University of Delaware are exploring that possibility. Web bots are automated programs that crawl the internet, often ...

In the lead-up to the 2018 midterm elections, more than 10,000 automated Twitter accounts got caught conducting a coordinated campaign of tweets to discourage people from voting. These automated ...

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imperva, Inc., (@Imperva) the comprehensive digital security leader on a mission to help organizations protect their data and all paths to it, releases the 2022 ...

Bots are in vogue like never before. They’re the heart of every next-generation cognitive app for mobile, social, e-commerce, and seemingly every other solution domain. But they’re not a new ...

Robert M. Hertzberg’s hatred of bots is personal. Hertzberg is a state Senator from California and last year, after he introduced a bail reform bill, he noticed that automated accounts on Twitter and ...

Bots now account for half of all traffic on the internet. Bots can be good or bad, according to Axios. Good bots, for example, help make searches more accurate. But bad bots, used to spread fake news ...

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