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October 2020

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Are Bots Slowing Down Your Website?

Oct 30, 2020 By Sabrina In Netacea

Bad bots are disrupting your website performance, reducing performance and speed. Bot activity, both good and bad, affects all industries including retail, online gambling and gaming and streaming. In our blog we discuss the detrimental impact of bots to your website performance and subsequently, the customer experience, with advice for detecting and mitigating bad bot activity.

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Could a Flurry of Interactions Be Skewing Your Metrics?

Oct 30, 2020 By Netacea In Netacea

APIs served as part of web and mobile applications are vital to enabling customers to interact with your business. However, it’s important to understand the impact on your business when these APIs are used in new, non-standard and potentially unintended ways. While APIs are usually written and intended for use with certain frontends (i.e. web application or mobile app), they are served publicly on the internet and are open to inspection by any interested party.

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The evolution of bots: generations 1, 2 & 3

Oct 22, 2020 By Sabrina In Netacea

Bots are evolving dramatically and becoming more sophisticated and launching ever more complex and targeted attacks at ever increasing rates. This makes detecting bots more important than ever but also more difficult than ever. Bots of the more recent generations are harder to identify without expert bot detection tooling. These bots could put businesses at risk of exposure to threats such as scraping, carding, and credential stuffing.

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3 Steps to Better Bot Management

Oct 22, 2020 By Netacea
Are you seeing the full picture when it comes to web and application security? Without fast and accurate data at your fingertips from the best bot management, it's increasingly difficult to differentiate human from automated bot traffic on your web-facing applications. Credential stuffing, account fraud and scraping attacks are a multi-billion-dollar business¹, with the scope for earning made increasingly simple by the vast number of internet users, availability of login credentials and the sheer volume of connected devices.
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Everything You Need to Know About the Evolving Bot Landscape

Oct 22, 2020 By Netacea
In 2019 we saw more credential stuffing, sniper and scraper bot attacks targeting websites, mobile apps and APIs alike. The shift in attack vectors and scale of attacks highlights an urgent need for a sophisticated solution that protects businesses and customers from the growing malicious bot threat. Understanding the intent of bad bots vs. humans or good bots is vital as all industries face new challenges in acquiring the necessary visibility of their traffic, and subsequent analysis required for rapid and effective attack response that doesn't sacrifice the user experience.
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How are scalping bots threatening your businesses?

Oct 16, 2020 By Sabrina In Netacea

Scalper bots, or inventory hoarding bots, are used to disrupt, manipulate, and steal merchandise much faster than any human can. These malicious bots add products to carts, often products that are in high demand or limited supply. This stock is held in a basket and made unavailable to other prospective buyers. Scalper bots perform this process multiple times, causing significant problems for websites and retailers, by hijacking inventory and reselling the items at a higher price.

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Why Should You Care About Bots?

Oct 9, 2020 By Netacea In Netacea
Humans have become a minority of internet users, with automated bot traffic accounting for more than half of all internet traffic. The bots are becoming more sophisticated as they seek to evade detection. This webinar will reveal the true extent of the bot problem and what you can do to solve it with a pioneering approach to bot management, powered by machine learning that identifies even the most sophisticated bots by their behaviour.
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The Future of Cyber Security Manchester: What Are Bot Attacks?

Oct 9, 2020 By Netacea In Netacea
Netacea's General Manager, Nick Baglin, talking about a new approach to bots and account takeover at The Future of Cyber Security Manchester 2019. This presentation will reveal the true extent of the bot problem and what you can do to solve it using behavioural machine learning that identifies even the most sophisticated bots.
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Fighting back at bots with Scott Helme

Oct 9, 2020 By Netacea In Netacea
Humans have become a minority of internet users, with automated bot traffic accounting for more than half of all internet traffic. However, most businesses do not know the composition of their web traffic, or what that traffic is doing on their websites. A trillion-dollar cyber-crime business has been born out of this environment, at the expense of organisations around the world. As the cyber threat grows, the internet is becoming increasingly unfair and driving businesses to spend roughly $88bn on cybersecurity, with this figure predicted to increase by 1,200% to $1tn in 2021.
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When robots strike: The hidden dangers of business logic attacks

Oct 9, 2020 By Netacea In Netacea
When organisations consider how to protect their web applications from attacks, they often focus on security scans and pen tests to identify technical security flaws. While this is absolutely correct, there is another risk that often remains undetected until it is too late: business logic attacks.
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Uncovering Bots in eCommerce Netacea Webinar

Oct 9, 2020 By Netacea In Netacea
Up to 40% of traffic to an eCommerce site consists of automated bot traffic, but many eCommerce sites lack the visibility required to accurately identify human traffic vs. good and bad bots. Watch the webinar recording and hear from guest speakers from leading eCommerce organizations who discuss what bots mean for them in 2020, the challenges facing technology leaders and their approaches to managing bot traffic.
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The Most Disruptive Black Friday Outages of 2019

Oct 7, 2020 By Sabrina In Netacea

Major eCommerce businesses experienced technical difficulties on their websites during Black Friday 2019. And this isn’t something retailers can afford, when Black Friday is traditionally the day retailers roll out their biggest online discounts. As Black Friday approaches, many websites will see a spike in traffic which means an increase in bot activity. Are bots hiding in your holiday traffic?

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PSD2 & API Security

Oct 1, 2020 By Netacea
The second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) is a data-driven legislation introduced by the European Union (EU) in 2015, with which all payment service providers (PSPs) throughout the EU and beyond must comply. PSD2 expands the scope of 2007's PSD, a directive implemented to make payments across borders as easy, secure and inexpensive as domestic payments. However, a short eight years later, innovations in technology and the prevalence of fintech have created new challenges for the payments industry to address.
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