Displaying items by tag: Bots

GUEST OPINION:  The bustling holiday travel season is a key business opportunity for Australian airlines and travel companies. Ensuring the smooth and reliable operation of essential systems and processes during this peak period is crucial for providing seamless customer experiences, boosting revenue, and building long-term customer loyalty. However, to succeed, the industry must contend with a growing challenge – sophisticated bots enhanced with cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

GUEST OPINION: Shadow APIs have become a significant threat to IT security in recent years. They are increasingly being exploited by cybercriminals to gain unauthorised access to systems with the objective of causing disruption or loss.

COMPANY NEWS: Radware, a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, today announced that it is the winner of two 2023 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards.

GUEST RESEARCH: Web analytics company Similarweb has found ChatGPT is generating opportunities for independent AI tech companies, such as Character.AI, which has bots that take on fictitious, celebrity, and historical personalities by design and will answer any question in the voice of that person.

GUEST RESEARCH: Today, Radware issued a threat advisory about a for-profit threat group from China called the 8220 Gang. The gang, also known as 8220 Mining Group, has rolled into the New Year targeting public cloud environments and poorly secured applications, using a custom-built crypto miner and IRC bot.

GUEST OPINION by Rajith Haththotuwegama, Manager – Data Analytics & Automation at Tecala:  Automation has been on the radar of Australian organisations for some time. Though the promise of the technology is fairly well understood, it has faced some barriers to broad-scale use, particularly in the mid-market, which is home to many economically important Australian businesses. But this is about to change.

Tesla and SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk's bid for Twitter appears likely to go through by Friday US time, a deadline set for the proposal to take effect.

COMPANY NEWS: Fastly, the world's fastest global edge cloud platform, today announced a reseller partnership with Human Security. The Fastly-Human partnership will offer customers industry-leading bot protection as well as fraud and account abuse prevention to keep cybercriminals out of their online applications and services.

Security vendor Radware's SecurePath is a new, cloud-based application security architecture for protecting applications deployed in multi- and hybrid-cloud environments, providing full application visibility and centralised security management.

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.

Whether you’re a small business, a huge enterprise or somewhere in between, Bitrix24 delivers an incredibly integrated online workspace with all the tools you need in one online suite, accessible from any device, with a virtual office, video calls, tasks and projects, a CRM, contact centre, website and online store builder, and more!

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.