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Bots Fail To Live Up To Turing Test - Again
News Artificial Intelligence (AI) 'bots' still have a lot of evolving to do before they can successfully impersonate human behaviour in a chatroom, according to the results of this year's Loebner Prize Contest in AI.
[October 22, 2003, 14:35]
Bots Snarl Sites As Shoppers Seek PlayStation 2
News So-called shopping bots, programs that repeatedly log on to Web sites to help people search for prices or products, have contributed to some recently stalled or crashed Web stores. I like the bots; they scream consumer empowerment," said Forrester...
[December 8, 2000, 11:54]
Smart Bots: Solutions For The Networked Economy
White Papers Smart bots are intelligent software products that integrate computer interaction and natural language understanding to bring a human-like presence to the points of contact between your company and its customers, partners, suppliers and employees.
[September 30, 2003, 0:00]
New Generation Of Shopping 'bots Swarms In
News Shopping "bots" and recommendation engines may be a boon to online bargain shoppers, but they can be a bane to merchants fighting eroding profit margins. So much so, in fact, that some merchants have barred the automated systems, which crawl the...
[August 16, 1999, 13:27]
Chat 'bots' May Be Hacker Tool
News The traffic surge relates to an increase in the use of IRC bots by the file-sharing community to swap files and pirated software across the Internet. An international network monitoring group has alerted corporate Australia to a growing file...
[May 10, 2002, 10:55]
Encrypted Bots Could Be The Next Threat
News In the near future, bots will include encryption to hide their presence from security and network sniffing tools often used to detect them, said Adam Meyers, an information assurance engineer at SRA International speaking at the Computer Security...
[November 15, 2005, 9:55]
Spying With Bots
White Papers This paper introduces several bots and shows how they can be employed to spy on the users of the compromised machines. Spyware has become a major threat in today's Internet. In May 2005, for example, an incident in Israel showed that spyware can be...
[June 15, 2007, 0:00]
Spyware And Bots - The Latest Network Security Risks
White Papers Spyware, Adware, and Bots are becoming the greatest security concerns for enterprises. Bots are programs that are covertly installed on a targeted system, allowing an unauthorized user to remotely control the computer for a wide variety of purposes...
[April 4, 2008, 0:00]
Encrypted Bots Could Be The Next Threat
Talkback Is this a joke? Please tell me this article is an early/late April Fool's joke. I mean really - let's be somewhat grounded here. Worms that act in a "retarded" but mass effort haven't _commonly_ used encryption for the past 5 years or so (some of...
[November 15, 2005, 17:29]
Bots Fail To Live Up To Turing Test - Again
Talkback http://www.intelagent.org
[February 2, 2006, 6:23]
New Bots A Shopper's Best Friend
News Instead, their bots accompany you around the Net and suggest alternatives when you're ready to buy. DealPilot and Dash.com both launched browser-based shopping "bots" last week, and iChoose is developing a plug-in that will go live later this month.
[November 12, 1999, 9:48]
HP Puts Bots In The Boardroom
News Why travel on business when you can send your robot double? That's the idea behind Hewlett-Packard Laboratories' "travel robot". A team made up mostly of former Compaq Computer researchers has built the gadget that allows a distant colleague to be...
[May 27, 2003, 8:30]
News Burst: Shopping Bots, Intelligent At Last
News DealPilot, as the company is now known, will launch its DealPilot Express service, a browser plug-in that lets users check competing prices -- complete with shipping, taxes and any duties -- at the click of a button.
[November 1, 1999, 7:37]
Buzzing Bots Behave Like Bees
News Swarming robots that can act in concert and mimic the behaviour of bees have netted James McLurkin, a 30-year-old doctoral candidate in computer science, the annual Lemelson-MIT Student Prize. McLurkin's robots are programmed to cluster, disperse...
[February 27, 2003, 10:06]
Bot Herders Go Low Key
News Malicious makers of bots are finding big is not always better when it comes to avoiding detection, according to a security expert. Over the past two years, the average network of bots, or compromised PCs commandeered by remote attackers, has...
[November 18, 2005, 10:10]
Spammers Use Free Porn To Bypass Hotmail Protection
News Spammers are bypassing a security protection that is designed to stop automated bots from automatically opening Web mail accounts, by offering humans access to free porn. But because of the sheer quantity of emails that are sent, spammers require...
[May 6, 2004, 18:00]
IRC Hacks: IRC With Java And PircBot
White Papers PircBot is a Java framework for writing IRC bots quickly and easily. It allows one to abstract themselves away from the underlying protocols and concentrate on making bots that do something useful. Using this framework is much easier than...
[October 10, 2007, 0:00]
China Leads Asia In Malicious Online Activity
News According to Symantec's biannual internet security threat report released on Wednesday, China topped the Asia-Pacific region, including Japan, in malicious activity, producing the most malicious code, spam zombies, bots and attacks between 1...
[September 20, 2007, 8:25]
'Spim' Threat Hovers On Horizon
Talkback For example, the AOL Instant Messenger service public chatrooms are now all but unusable due to the proliferation of 'bots that post solicitations for various pornographic Web sites. Quite often there are 10 or more 'bots in a chat room, and it is...
[June 11, 2004, 15:20]
Websense Reveals Bait For Web 2.0 Cybercrooks
News The company uses a series of web bots and user accounts, collectively referred to as "HoneyJax", to mimic Web 2.0 user activity. Automated "active HoneyJax" bots solicit users to join networks or reply to requests, and work in a similar way to web...
[August 8, 2007, 10:01]
