Bad bots are a continuing problem. Good bots, those that perform welcome and benign activities -- such as search engine crawlers like Googlebot and Bingbot -- are welcome. Bad bots, those that scrape and steal content, mine for competitive data, undertake credential stuffing, ad fraud, transaction fraud and more, are not.
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Bad Bots Steal Accounts, Content and Skew the Web Ecosystem
Bad bots are a continuing problem. Good bots, those that perform welcome and benign activities -- such as search engine crawlers like Googlebot and Bingbot -- are welcome. Bad bots, those that scrape and steal content, mine for competitive data, undertake credential stuffing, ad fraud, transaction fraud and more, are not. The post Bad Bots Steal Accounts, Content and Skew the Web Ecosystem appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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