Collaborate Disseminate
I’m one of those people who tends to review the people who are following me on Twitter and to block a great number of them. Why? Because many of them aren’t real people!
Here are a few examples:
@Juliettemasker
Juliette only has one tweet … Continue reading Twitter Mystery Followers: ? GarBot ?
A round-up of the security news from August 6 – 12, including ransomware, interesting talks during BlackHat, botnets, and the evils of JavaScript.
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Security world
Week in security
Tags: botnetCTNT reportcybercrimeexploit kitsM… Continue reading A week in security (August 6 – 12)
In the era of fake news and questions of election interference, these researchers wanted to find out if a person’s susceptibility to persuasion could be quantified. Continue reading Take This Test to See How Gullible You Are
Emilio Ferrara analyzed pro-Trump bots during the 2016 election and found a link to anti-Macron bots in 2017. Continue reading The Same Twitter Bots That Helped Trump Tried to Sink Macron, Researcher Says
LandsatBot posts random shots of Earth every few hours, from the icy mountains of the Kyrgyz Republic to the verdant greens of Argentina. Continue reading You Should Be Following LandsatBot for All Your Earth Porn Needs
Can empathy ever be automated? Continue reading This Bot Tries to Empathise With Your Emotional Tweets
Where did Viola13 want me to go? Continue reading Follow a Trail of Twitter Porn Bots and This Is Where They’ll Take You
It’ll be done quicker than the report took to write in the first place. Continue reading A Bot Is Tweeting All 2.6 Million Words of the Chilcot Report
A user experience researcher now works with bots as part of her day job. But before that, she was fooled by one that seemed a little too human. Continue reading The User Experience Researcher Who Was Fooled by a Twitter Bot