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Last year, 40.8% of all web traffic requests were not human, underscoring the growing scale of bot traffic across the Internet, Imperva Research Labs, a research group within security software and ...

Automated traffic to Web sites has steadily increased, driven by legitimate search-engine indexing, questionable crawlers, and malicious attackers. Companies need to know which is which. To that end, ...

In an update to Google Analytics, bot traffic will be automatically filtered out of reports for Web + App properties. “In App + Web properties, traffic from bots and spiders is automatically excluded.

Bots get a bad rap. They’re paralyzing web sites, scraping unique content, and taking over the Internet, right? It’s true, bad bots can do a lot of damage, but what about the good ones? We’re often ...

Microsoft has announced that the Web Application Firewall (WAF) bot protection feature has reached general availability on Azure Application Gateway starting this week. Azure Web Application Firewall ...

The rising volume of bot traffic on the web is driving companies to adopt new tools for securing their websites. PerimeterX Inc., a threat prevention provider based out of San Mateo, California, said ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Between 30%-70% of traffic to ...

A new report from online advertising platform Solve Media reveals that 10 percent of all web traffic originates from automated computer bots. These bots, capable of clicking ads that trick publishers ...

Need to plan a trip? Order food, maybe? Or perhaps you need help planning your calendar. Well, there are bots for all of those things. Bots are all the rage right now, with Facebook reportedly ...

If you've punched in credit card details while shopping online, you've probably wondered how secure those digits are. According to Newcastle University, the answer is: not very. Its researchers have ...

As the Web turns 25, it's becoming a terrific place if you're a bot. It began as a tool for human communication, but now, over 60 percent of the traffic on the Web is automated applications called ...