Collaborate Disseminate
January 9 ended up being a very expensive day for a Culver City, California man after he pleaded guilty to recklessly operating a drone during the height of the Pacific …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: February 9, 2025
I am integrating Cloudflare Turnstile into my website, and there is an optional POST parameter remoteip, which can be sent from the server to Cloudflare. reCAPTCHA has the same parameter as mentioned in Is there any reason to include the r… Continue reading Is there any issue with binding the client’s IP address to a reCAPTCHA/Turnstile token?
As I’m currently knee deep in testing agentic AI in all its forms, as well as new iterations of current generative AI models such as OpenAI’s O1, the complexities of securing AI bot frameworks for enterprise security teams are beginning to crystallize…. Continue reading AI security posture management will be needed before agentic AI takes hold
Generative AI has helped lower the barrier for entry for malicious actors and has made them more efficient, i.e., quicker at creating convincing deepfakes, mounting phishing campaigns and investment scams, the most recent report by the Cyber Threat All… Continue reading Malicious actors’ GenAI use has yet to match the hype
The discovery that 95% of advanced bot attacks go undetected points to a weakness in current detection and mitigation strategies. This suggests that while some organizations may have basic defenses, they are ill-equipped to handle more sophisticated at… Continue reading Websites are losing the fight against bot attacks
Simple bots have existed since the early to mid-2000s when organizations had no means to protect themselves or their website’s users from them. Yet today, despite having tools to protect against these simple bots, two in three organizations have made n… Continue reading What bots mean for businesses and consumers
Over the past few weeks, I’ve observed a massive spike in suspicious traffic from IP addresses belonging to Microsoft servers in Ireland. These accesses are blocked due to attempts to reach specific, often non-existent, PHP files and paths… Continue reading Massive Increase in Phony Access Attempts from Microsoft IPs – What Kind of Attack Is This? [duplicate]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve observed a massive spike in suspicious traffic from IP addresses belonging to Microsoft servers in Ireland. These accesses are blocked due to attempts to reach specific, often non-existent, PHP files and paths… Continue reading Massive Increase in Phony Access Attempts from Microsoft IPs – What Kind of Attack Is This? [duplicate]
It appears that every forum, wordpress blog and other such website is regularly visited by bots, who use it to post shady advertisements.
I am curious how do bots seek such websites?
I understand – correct me if I’m wrong – that once a bot… Continue reading how do bots seek forums, blogs and other "spammable" websites? [closed]
Companies across industries are seeing more bot-driven attacks, both basic and advanced, according to DataDome. An analysis of over 14,000 websites uncovered alarming gaps in protection against cyber fraud, particularly within consumer-centric industri… Continue reading 65% of websites are unprotected against simple bot attacks