A recent Necro Python bot campaign has shown that the developer behind the malware is hard at work ramping up its capabilities. The developer behind the Necro Python bot has made a number of changes ...

Two weeks ago, to commemorate the anniversary of the relaunch of FiveThirtyEight, I looked at what the site had published and made Markov bots to replicate several of our writers. Here’s how I defined ...

A new paper suggests that the field of bot detection is based on a flawed premise due to poor-quality original data. The research, presented this week at the Web Conference (where it was awarded best ...