Bots

Musk acordó en abril adquirir Twitter, pero ha chocado con la compañía por el tema de los bots y las cuentas falsas.

Billions of “bots” are buying up concert tickets before you, then re-sell them at a much higher price and the mysterious digital middleman continue to drive up ticket prices at a staggering scale and speed. Who’s to blame? The bots that buy in bulk or the people who can enforce the law to stop them and aren’t. Consumer investigator...

Distil Networks, an online security firm with a large Bay Area presence, says automated “bots” now make up two out of every five visits to online event admission ticket websites, making it harder for fans to buy seats at face value.

A new report from an online security firm with operations in San Francisco finds bad ‘bots’ – automated computer programs working for hackers and other criminals – are growing in number and sophistication.

Online threat researchers gave NBC Bay Area early access to an eye-opening study, released Wednesday, that found millions of mobile phones, tablets, and other devices are hosting malicious software used discreetly by hackers.