Collaborate Disseminate
Bad bot traffic continues to rise year-over-year, accounting for nearly a third of all internet traffic in 2023. Bad bots access sensitive data, perpetrate fraud, steal proprietary information, and degrade site performance. New technologies are enablin… Continue reading How to detect and stop bot activity
Consumers across the U.S. and Canada have embraced digital banking and biometric identity proofing during the COVID-19 pandemic, a FICO study has found. The study found that 41 percent of North American consumers are more likely to use digital means to… Continue reading Consumers embracing biometrics to protect their information
Mobile apps that work with Bluetooth devices have an inherent design flaw that makes them vulnerable to hacking, a research has found. Where is the issue? The problem lies in the way Bluetooth Low Energy devices communicate with the mobile apps that co… Continue reading The way Bluetooth devices ‘talk’ to apps leaves them vulnerable
As all applications need to be both secured and fast, the industry moves towards mitigating bad bots. As nearly 25% of all web traffic is generated by bad bots, we have to be sure we can detect and block them. Of course, this ratio depends on your mar… Continue reading Security Impacting Humans: Fingerprinting vs. CAPTCHA
An essential part of the technological evolution is creating systems, machines and applications that autonomously and independently create, collect and communicate data. This automation frees information technology folk to focus on other tasks. Curren… Continue reading CAPTCHA Limitations of Bot Mitigation
Starting with Firefox 58, users will be able to refuse websites’ requests for information extracted via the HTML5 canvas element, which can be used to fingerprint their browsers. What is browser fingerprinting? Browser fingerprinting is used as an alternative to browser cookies by websites and web analytics services that want to identify users and track their online behavior. There are a number of browser/device fingerprinting techniques, but Mozilla aims to address the issue of “canvas … More → Continue reading Firefox will soon block canvas-based browser fingerprinting attempts