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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. However, the use of this practice has almost entirely disappeared, all at once. More recent data shows this clearly.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

It’s up from 40 minutes in July 2014. Even by July 2014, Facebook’s core application had effectively saturated the US market, with more than 80% of US adults on Facebook. Google also likely has the best computer vision experts, datasets, and algorithms on the planet. Microsoft has been working on this for about a decade.

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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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Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II)

crowdSPRING Blog

I started a couple of weeks ago with the first part of a post on small business trends for 2014; today I have 5 more trends that I’d like to share. Illustration, Wikipedia: 2014 – Year of the Horse. Related posts: Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt I). Secondly, trends are trends and nothing more.

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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% Then a great thing happened: people caught on, internet security caught up, and IP-based mitigation techniques that can identify and bounce these bots was widely adopted.

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Crushing It With Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Best Metrics, Reports

Occam's Razor

she will look at all her observations of other supermarkets on Earth, on other planets, and do her best to give your the best normalized, indexed, algorithm'ed number. And I'm totally ignoring that demo/psycho data is deeply inferred and algorithmized. Switch your IP to the first opportunity from #1.

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