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Microsoft Teams is rolling out an admin policy that fully blocks detected external bots from protected meetings, extending its June bot-lobby detection feature.

#MicrosoftTeams #BotProtection #Microsoft365 #MeetingSecurity #ITSecurity

https://meterpreter.org/teams-block-external-bots-meetings/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Learn how to set up free bot and fake account protection with CrowdSec and ALTCHA on Ubuntu. Block fake signups, spam, and abusive bots.

Full guide here: https://ostechnix.com/build-free-bot-fake-account-protection-crowdsec-altcha-ubuntu/

#Crowdsec #Altcha #Captcha #reCAPTCHA #BotProtection #IntrusionPreventionSystem #Websitesecurity

We now have one-click bot protection with Anubis. You can activate it if you are running an Omicron instance.

#fediverse #botprotection #activityPub #omicron #internet #mastodon

FYI: Kinsta adds free bot protection to all WordPress plans: Kinsta on June 9 launched Bot Protection for all plans, giving WordPress owners control over AI crawlers and automated traffic inside MyKinsta at no added cost. https://ppc.land/kinsta-adds-free-bot-protection-to-all-wordpress-plans/ #Kinsta #WordPress #BotProtection #AICrawlers #TechNews

ICYMI: Kinsta adds free bot protection to all WordPress plans: Kinsta on June 9 launched Bot Protection for all plans, giving WordPress owners control over AI crawlers and automated traffic inside MyKinsta at no added cost. https://ppc.land/kinsta-adds-free-bot-protection-to-all-wordpress-plans/ #Kinsta #WordPress #BotProtection #WebSecurity #AI

Kinsta adds free bot protection to all WordPress plans: Kinsta on June 9 launched Bot Protection for all plans, giving WordPress owners control over AI crawlers and automated traffic inside MyKinsta at no added cost. https://ppc.land/kinsta-adds-free-bot-protection-to-all-wordpress-plans/ #Kinsta #WordPress #BotProtection #WebSecurity #DigitalMarketing

Continuing on StyloBot this weekend, staging site showed a regression after my new work on Browser Modes so working through that - code llm drifted away from a core pattern in a big refactor...as it always does.

Core lesson: make your test apps *fail loudly* LLMs are great at papering over spreading, structural cracks in your system.

Distillation phase; not planned work as it's responding to live detection issues. Where a single homan controlled browser sends different headers, request 'shape' for stuff like data / resources / api calls / content.
Each of those is a different 'mode' which NORMALLY bot detectors will just toss the strange differences and merge into a single 'identity based' fingerprint.

*However* in StyloBot it can tell them apart because it doesn't throw away these extra discriminators. The bug appeared like multiple clients requesting from the same IP but different 'deceptive' browsers (as I expected all the headers etc). Same goes for AdBlock on/off...it changes what your browser *looks like* by stripping headers etc...
So instead I actually detect these 'modes' and use them to add to discriminaton signal; the proportion and timing cadence is SUPER hard to fake for automation; humans run browsers in 'noisy' computational environments, bots tend to be synthetically 'cleaner'.

Anyway that's my weekend, the code llm decided (as it tends to) to layer another parallel system on top of the existing one and it SUCKS - 2s a response as it does a full *db* match against ALL our 'prototyes' each request.
It got the idea but forgot the pattern; I use a single consolidated behaviourally shaped LFU 'transparent' - you don't worry about DB just read and wwrite through the cache and it handles updates etc - LAZY CQRS with none of the guarantees for *super* high speed & in memory.
As usual this is an *odd* archutecture of this sub-feature so the Code LLM (Calude) SMEARS it towards the normative for this.
I told it new in memory stores are not allowed; as it will ALWAYS add these (IMemoryCache) in ASP.NET apps...try and stop it!
So it decided this was a direct to DB operation; it followed one constraint then SKIPPED all the others.
#stylobot #botdetection #botprotection

Nice. @hetzner added a proof of work bot protection to their accounts subdomain that requires me to enable WASM.

WTF :thisIsFine:

I definitely won't do that. So no more access to my servers. Noice.

That is definitively the wrong way of doing a bot protection.

#hetzner #BotProtection #WASM

In a shocking twist of events, Claude now demands a peek at your driver's license because, apparently, stopping #Skynet starts with knowing your shoe size. 🤦‍♂️ Because who knew that asking customers to prove they're not bots was the ultimate safeguard for AI overlords? 🙄🔐
https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14328960-identity-verification-on-claude #AIoverlords #DriverLicense #BotProtection #TechnologyHumor #SafetyMeasures #HackerNews #ngated

Sometimes I see lately from time to time posts about blocking AI, bots, scrapers from your web pages, or feeding them garbage, etc. But that's wrong & misinterpreted root-cause approach.
Because:
- it leads to raping your browser via running on it non-consensual bad js
- toxic cookie trackers
- blocking wide shared ipv4 ranges of users behind nat, geoblocks
- blocking small floss non-bigtech cli browsers (like w3m emacs ...)

fundamental misunderstanding that
- a browser is an indexer & a scraper, your website could be browsed & distributed offline.
- not all A(g)I robots are equally bad, some of them are better than some biological wrongposters.

the world wide web designed as open with hypertext, but modern philosophical flaws misguiding towards gatekept closetd segregated world

what do #gopher #gemini #telnet #bbs folks think about this? Interested to hear from them, because explicit open philosophy of their protocols eliminates issues in root design.

I recently had to solve "What is a square root of -1?" captcha. I had no idea. It took me a a bit of time & research. But it was possible without JS.

#ai #agi #robots #bot #botProtection #anubis #cloudflare

Peak shopping season is almost here 🎯, and for many online stores, the real challenge isn’t scale, it’s security.

ScaleCommerce, a leading e-commerce hosting provider in Germany, once saw clients hit with 3 million requests in an hour, driving up costs and risking downtime.

After integrating CrowdSec, they were able to block 95% of malicious bot traffic, cut infrastructure spend, and keep sites fast during peak demand ⚡️.

As the year’s biggest shopping weekend approaches, make sure your traffic surge comes from real customers, not attacks.

Read the full story: https://www.crowdsec.net/blog/scalecommerce-plummets-ops-costs-and-skyrockets-efficiency

#cybersecurity #ecommercesecurity #blackfriday2025 #botprotection

🎉 A new version of the Captcha plugin is available.

🖼️ More resistant to bots/OCR because the image now uses real 24-bit color with alpha channel.
🤖 Overall, the CAPTCHA is more difficult to crack using automated text recognition.
🐝 New invisible "honeypot" blocks more bots.
⏰ Hidden timestamp field ensures that a captcha is only valid for a limited time.
🚫 If the bot takes less than 6 seconds to enter, this leads to an error.

👉 https://wiki.flatpress.org/res:plugins:fpcaptcha

#BotProtection #Captcha #FlatPress

Using lots of little tools to aggressively reject the bots

https://lambdacreate.com/posts/68

#HackerNews #Using #lots #of #little #tools #to #aggressively #reject #the #bots #littletools #botprotection #cybersecurity #technews #innovation

If you need a break from the computer, why don’t you do like I did and test old mobile devices with outdated TLS implementations without ALPN to access your server repeatedly to trigger your bot protection, which then blocks your home IP for an hour.

Of course, I could cheat and get a new IP by dis- and reconnecting to my DSL provider. Or go shopping for groceries while enjoying the sun.

#SNAFU #Layer8 #Bot #BotProtection #SelfHosting

Google now requires users to enable JavaScript to access Google Search, aiming to "better protect" the service from malicious activity like bots and spam. Enhanced security measures in action! 🔒🔍 #Google #JavaScript #Cybersecurity #TechNews #SearchEngine #BotProtection #DigitalSecurity

GitHub Telegram Bots and ASCII QR Codes in Phishing Attacks
GitHub Telegram Bots and ASCII QR Codes in phishing attacks? Buckle up, because we're about to take a deep dive into this fascinating topic that has been making waves in the cybersecurity community
#GitHub #Telegram #Phishing #ASCIICodes #CyberSecurity #BotProtection #QRcode #OnlineThreats #DigitalSecurity #TechAwareness #news #hackers #tech #security
https://cloudhosting.evostrix.eu/github-telegram-bots-and-ascii-qr-codes-in-phishing-attacks/

10 Best Bot Protection Software – 2024 https://cybersecuritynews.com/bot-protection-software/ #CyberSecurity #Botmitigation #Botprotection #Internetbots #Threats #Top10

This bot protection seems to forget about neurodivergence.

The spacial comparison isn’t clear and obvious. To some, maybe, but this requires cognitive processing that suits neurotypical folks.

If someone isn’t mentally capable of figuring out what to do they’ll be denied access. Not because they’re a bot, but because they’re neurodivergent. This feels like an accessibility issue.

#Accessibility #BotProtection #ImNotARobot #UX #CognitiveProcessing #Cognitive #Neurodivergence

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#Datenschutz #Kurznotiert #AWS #AWSWAFBotControl #BotProtection https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/kurz-notiert/onlyfans-setzt-ausgerechnet-datenkrake-amazon-ein-258968.html

#ActuLibre Top 5 Essential Features of Effective Cybersecurity for Web Apps -> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~3/V3IQTdCvjoc/web-application-cybersecurity.html #ddosprotection #BotMitigation #BotProtection #cybersecurity #BotDetection #Botnetattack #CDNNetwork #CDNService