When you have to call a customer service line, where's your patience on a scale of 1-10? "Most people start at a nine or nine-and-a-half," says Amas Tenumah, who wrote a book called Waiting for ...

Digital security firm Are You a Human has found bots for sale in traffic previously verified as actual website visitors. The sophisticated bots trigger mouse movement, a common signal the “viewer” is ...

An independent advertising agency has notified Microsoft it has encountered significant challenges with invalid traffic and junk leads that have impacted performance of client campaigns, and could ...

Purch, publisher of LiveScience and TopTenReviews, added three layers of defense to its anti-fraud system in October. In addition to pre-screening for bots twice, Purch now detects bots, malware and ...

When you hear about bots in the news, it’s usually something bad. Bots, bits of software designed to perform routine tasks for their human creators, are often associated with scam calls, fake social ...

Cloudflare has created a bot-busting AI to make life hell for AI crawlers.… The network-taming company built the tool after noticing that almost one percent of all requests to access web content that ...

When I present my research on ad fraud at conferences (and on webcasts during quarantine), most marketers shake their heads in disbelief. It’s hard to believe there’s all this fraud going on when ad ...

Bots enable hackers to take control of many computers at a time and turn them into zombie computers that can spread viruses, generate spam and commit other types of online crime, including ad fraud.