Tag: bots

Security

Underworld economy runs on bots and spam

By Shaun Nichols | Apr 11, 2008 | Comment Now

The world of cybercrime is thriving on spam and the means of distributing it, say security experts..

Software

Google bots get the red carpet treatment

By Robert Jaques | Nov 20, 2007 | Comment Now

Webmasters who control automated web-crawler access to their sites using 'robots.txt' files have a bias that favours Google over other search engines, according to new research..

Security

Scammers deploy bots for Ebay manipulation

By Tom Sanders | Aug 2, 2006 | 1 Comment

Scammers have turned to automated bots to create Ebay accounts with a positive feedback record, reports security vendor Fortinet.

Security

IM a bot breeding ground

By DVD Editor | Mar 16, 2005 | Comment Now

Instant messaging applications are the new breeding ground for bots and other malicious applications, according to network security company Trend Micro.