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51% of Internet Traffic Is "Non-Human"
hypnosec writes "Cloud-based service Incapsula has revealed research indicating 51 per cent of website traffic is through automated software programs, with many programmed for malicious activity. The breakdown of an average site's traffic is as follows: 5% is due to hacking tools looking for an unpatched or new vulnerability within a site, 5% is scrapers, 2% is from automated comment spammers, 19% is the result of 'spies' collating competitive intelligence, 20% is derived from search engines (non-human traffic but benign), and only 49% is from people browsing the Internet."
the article seems to be about websites, not the intetnet
When the singularity arrives, it wont be the T-900 to fear, but instead incessant little gnat-bots that swarm anything with a wallet. It seems the internet is denigrating to just another platform of the one true age-old human behavior--scheming and conning to get the most precious thing you have. Your personal information and your money. And this does not surprise me--for a technological system/network created by humans will be just as full of our flaws and intrinsic 'mental' malfunctions as any non-silicon process our species oversees. Evolutionary my dear Watson.
'We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.' RPF
If you run wordpress for your site... It's more like 50% Bots (search engines), 40% Comment Spam, and 8% Content Scanners and 2% Visitors....
The summary is ok, but the title is completely wrong. It could well be 51% of HTTP requests, but far as 'Internet traffic", it's probably a tiny fraction of a percent.
In fact, why is it even surprising or newsworthy that 50% of HTTP requests are malicious? Anyone who runs a public web server will be able to see that pretty quickly (though as long as it's configured correctly the actual traffic will be tiny (consisting of a whole bunch of 404's).
Seriously. Do they have liberal arts majors writing the headlines at /. now?
I am becoming gerund, destroyer of verbs.
If you get a fairly large chunk of traffic from Google's bots, then you must have almost no *actual* daily traffic :)
Incapsula, a provider of cloud-based security for web sites, released a study today showing that 51% of web site traffic is automated software programs, and the majority is potentially damaging, — automated exploits from hackers, spies, scrapers, and spammers.
and it just so happens that Incapsula has the perfect solution to save you from all this... for a price.
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My guess is humans will be more evil, we are innovative in a way its hard to imagine an AI will be. It won't matter though. The AI will adapt, adopt, and iteratively improve on our ideas; using them against us so much effectively than we could ever hope to do.
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