Sunday, March 18, 2012

More than half of Internet traffic is ?non-human?

A new study suggests that more than half of all Internet traffic is generated by non-human sources such as hacking software, scrapers and automated spam mechanisms. The majority of this non-human traffic, according to cloud service provider�Incapsula, is potentially malicious. The study is based on data collected from 1,000 websites that utilize Incapsula’s services, and it determined that just 49% of Web traffic is human browsing.�20% is benign non-human search engine traffic, but 31% of all Internet traffic is tied to malicious activities.�19% is from ” ‘spies’ collecting competitive intelligence,”�5% is from automated hacking tools seeking out vulnerabilities, 5% is from scrapers and 2% is from content spammers.�”Few people realize how much of their traffic is non-human, and that much

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