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FTC nails 29 spammers who sent over 180m texts promising freebies

FTC nails 29 spammers who sent over 180m texts promising freebies
  • Posted March 8, 2013, 8:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Industry News, IT Security
  • The US Federal Trade Commission has charged 29 individuals who allegedly sent millions of spam text messages to phone users promising "free" prizes. The defendants are reportedly responsible for sending more than 180 million unwanted messages to random phone numbers,…

Study: 51% of Internet traffic is from bots, 31% is harmful

Study: 51% of Internet traffic is from bots, 31% is harmful
  • Posted March 16, 2012, 8:00 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in The Web
  • According to research by Incapsula, approximately half of all Web traffic stems from automated sources. The outfit determined that humans only represent about 49% of traffic, while the remaining chunk is derived from bots. Of that bot-related traffic, 20% stems…

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