90 percent of security events are caused by bots

Bots account for 49 percent of all internet traffic, most of which is from malicious 'bad bots' according to website security company Incapsula. Of course there are good bots too, such as the crawlers used by major search engines, but according to Incapsula’s figures 90 percent of all security events are caused by bots, and 66 percent of all bot activity is malicious. It splits bad bots into four categories, The Impersonator -- which poses as a regular visitor to spy on, steal from or bring down a website. The Hacker -- which seeks to steal valuable data (such as… [Continue Reading]