Who's afraid of the big bad bot?

  • 18 December 2014
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By Ian Barker
 
Web security specialist Incapsula has released its 2014 annual Bot Study which reveals that 56 percent of website traffic is accounted for by bots.
That's down from 61.5 percent on last year's study, however the number of 'bad' bots posing as humans has increased significantly.
 
The number of impersonator bots has risen by 15 percent in the two years since Incapsula began its annual study and by 10 percent in 2014. These include DDoS bots, bots masked by proxies and bots that are trying to avoid security measures by using false identities.
 
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