They don't only live in the mountains and caves of Scandinavian folklore, or in modern-day animated cartoons. Trolls now make ...

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 ...

Alright, pal, you wanna keep reading? Why don’t you tell me which of these pictures does not have a stop sign in it? According to CloudFlare, nearly one-third of all internet traffic is now bots. Most ...

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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 ...

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A new wave of digital activity has shifted the balance of the internet as automated bots now account for over half of global web traffic. Cybersecurity data shows that traffic from non-human sources ...

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 ...