Bots are responsible for half of all internet traffic
Bots are responsible for 50 percent of global internet traffic, according to research by Barracuda Networks. Three out of five of these are classified as bad bots, which are intended for nefarious purposes such as DDoS attacks and data theft.
Overall, then, bad bots account for 30 percent of int... Read more
Facebook wants to normalise news about leaks, new data leak surfaces
Facebook wants to deflect attention from its recent data breach by creating an image that scraping incidents occur across the industry. Meanwhile, a new tool has surfaced that can retrieve the email addresses of Facebook users.
The new media strategy is was leaked from an internal email held by ... Read more
Names and info of 1.3 million Clubhouse users appear online
A database containing data on 1.3 million Clubhouse users has appeared on a hacker forum. However, according to Clubhouse, this was not a hack, as the data had always been publicly accessible with an API.
The shared data consists of the user ID, name, URL of the profile picture, user name, Twitt... Read more