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Q2 2015 DDoS Trends – The Fall Of Search Engine Impersonators

YoungUpstarts

According to Incapsula “threat landscape report” , search bot impersonation was detected in 60% of the DDoS attacks in 2014 but only in 1% of those in 2015! Google and Baidu impersonators bots – 2015 compared to 2014. Source: Q2 2015: Incapsula global DDoS threat landscape – Full report ).

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Is Your Company Utilising The Bacs Payment System?

YoungUpstarts

The Bacs system uses a secure, internet-based service called Bacstel-IP to make payments between banks. In order to connect with Bacstel-IP and utilise its payment services, businesses must use a Bacs approved payment software. The Bacstel-IP system is protected with SSL encryption. In 2014, Bacs processed 5.8

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10 Incredible Mobile Marketing Statistics Every Entrepreneur Must Know

Growthink Blog

And I was one of the early adapters of Voice Over IP. According to Yankee Group, global mobile payments (called m-payments) currently total approximately $240 billion and are expected to exceed $1 trillion by 2015. billion in 2014 and will generate $35 billion in sales. I was one of the first users of Google's AdWords program.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Anodot (2014) – a real-time analytics and automated anomaly detection system that discovers outliers in vast amounts of data. Fraugster (2014) – Technically based in Berlin, the company uses AI to predict malicious attacks before they happen. Logz.io (2014) – Logz.io Raised $8M in series B in September 2016.

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Israel & Japan: Konnichi Wa to Collaboration, Sayonara to Stagnation

VC Cafe

In 2015, bilateral trade reached $ 2.5 In 2015, bilateral trade reached $ 2.5 In 2014, then Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Toshimitsu Motegi , concluded a joint industrial R&D agreement in Israel. Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, visiting Israel in January, 2015. Billion ($1.6 Billion ($1.6

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2015 Q2 DDoS Threat Landscape Report: The Downside Of The Decline Of Search Engine Impersonator Bots, And What It Means For DDoS Attacks

YoungUpstarts

On the surface, the news that the use of search engine impersonator bots is down from 57% of all DDoS bot traffic in 2014 to a miniscule 0.9% in 2015 seems like good news. Source: Incapsula Q2 2015 DDoS Global Threat Landscape Full Report. Surveying the rest of the DDoS threat landscape.

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Should You Get Rid of Your Website’s Lead Forms?

ConversionXL

A year earlier, a 2015 survey of 2,000 consumers conducted by eDigitalResearch found that 37% of consumers expected to be able to communicate with brands via live chat (a.k.a. That was up from 30% in 2014. At Segment , for example, they’ve set up a bot that can identify what companies anonymous visitors work at based on IP address.