Displaying items by tag: Bots

Cybersecurity risks in the retail industry suggests that the 2021 holiday shopping season will be further disrupted by cybercriminals looking to create chaos and take advantage of an unprecedented global supply chain crisis, according to one security firm.

Transport for NSW is undertaking a major recruitment drive with the hiring of hundreds of local IT professionals of all disciplines and levels across the state.

Talking to prospects teaches more than reading market research. Recent customer engagements (unfortunately still virtual) made it loud and clear – businesses need effective security.

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Process management and automation vendor Nintex, has announced significant enhancements to its cloud-first process automation solution - Nintex Workflow Cloud - including a "market first" offering, giving customers the ability to quickly and easily create workflows that include robotic process automation (RPA) bots.

Australia is lagging behind the rest of the world in robotic process and robotic desktop automation, with many organisations finding robotics hard to deploy and maintain.

Cloud security and data protection solutions vendor Barracuda Networks is using advanced bot detection technology from InfiSecure Technologies to expands its bot protection capabilities and enable stronger protection against authomated threats.

Twitter accounts that are controlled largely by bots have been observed targeting Australians in the run-up to the Federal Election on 18 May, a researcher from the Queensland University of Technology Digital Media Research Centre claims.

Ninety percent of the Australia’s credential abuse attacks are delivered from within Australia via local ISP networks, according to a new study which also found that a growing number of internationally-based cybercriminals are routing attacks via homegrown networks.

Cyber security defenders face "increasing threats from organisations in the form of bot-based credential abuse targeting the hospitality industry and advanced distributed denial of service attacks".

Robotic Process Automation is the new way for companies to automate in a modern fashion, while freeing up employees to work on more meaningful tasks.

Facebook has looked back at its Messenger and the messaging trends that shaped 2017, "uncovering interesting data about how people are messaging with each other and businesses – over two billion messages were exchanged between people and businesses each month".

Network infrastructure provider Juniper Networks claims its release of new bots brings self-driving  networks closer to reality, with the new applications simplifying network operations by translating intent into automated workflows.

Getting the right balance of human agents and automation is important for providing a good customer service experience.

Many enterprises are slow to respond to increasing demand for mobile apps, with more than a quarter of enterprises globally still not having built, customised or virtualised apps in the last 12 months, according to a new report.

New research on more than 5000 global consumers shows overwhelming support for the use of chatbots for simple tasks – they are quicker and take less work than talking to a human, it has been claimed.

Well-intentioned programmers have made bots to automate Wikipedia editing. Yet one person's treasure is another person's trash, resulting in bots clashing and consistently undoing each other's work.

Microsoft’s source of inspiration has always come from its developers. "Every action we take, every product we build, the choices we take, all comes from our sense of mission – to empower every person on the planet to achieve more."

Bots have been used to steal data from the business networking site LinkedIn since December 2015, the company claims in a case filed in the US District Court, Northern District of California.