Daily Archives: December 13, 2013

Online traffic from bots in 2013 — automated softwarethat include everything from hacking tools to spammers to search engine catalogers — is up 21 percent from 2012, when 51 percent of website visits already came from bots. Thirty-one percent of bots are malicious, according to a recent study, but spam bots decreased from two percent of traffic last year to half-a-percent in 2013. Continue reading →