At the moment AI and their malicious bots are the scourge of the internet. They ignore all the conventions and implicit rules built on trust over many years. Cloudflare has called out Perplexity on this abuse at Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives. You can also read more on the impact of these bots at The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers. Read more

Before I start I should probably say what credential stuffing and e-mail plus addressing are. Knowing what credential stuffing is will also let you understand why you should care. Definitions Credential Stuffing is a type of cyberattack where stolen account credentials typically consisting of lists of usernames and/or email addresses and the corresponding passwords (often from a data breach) are used to gain unauthorized access to user accounts through large-scale automated login requests directed against a web application. Unlike credential cracking, credential stuffing attacks do not attempt to brute force or guess any passwords – the attacker simply automates the logins for a large number (thousands to millions) of previously discovered credential pairs using standard web automation tools like Selenium, cURL, PhantomJS or tools designed specifically for these types of attacks such as: Sentry MBA, SNIPR, STORM, Blackbullet and Openbullet. Read more

There is a lot of false information around about the way Google stores information about you and how they use it. You can however have full control of your Google Account by visiting google.com/myactivity If you want to benefit from technology you need to learn how to manage it. This link was found on Lauren Weinstein’s Blog If you are interested in Internet Privacy and Security visit Lauren Weinstein’s Blog you will get lots of useful information. Read more

Before you post or share links on social media do all of us a favour and quickly fact check for fake news. URLs similar to newatlastsa.online is also a giveaway. In fact I would regard anything ending in .online or .info somewhat suspect.