For instance, any bot that violates a website’s terms of service or robots.txt rules for bot behavior is deemed malicious. These bots often perform tasks that create security risks for businesses and customers alike, such as accessing sensitive data without permission and preventing account access...
Also known as web robots, Internet bots are software that run automated scripts. Hackers use them to perform simple and repetitive tasks, like sending instant messages or crawling websites. Facebook and Google notoriously use these ‘good bots’ to facilitate certain everyday jobs instead of ...
There are good bots and bad bots. Ideally, you should grant the access of legitimate bots from search engines, like Google, Bing and so on, to crawl and index your pages for SEO purposes. But, definitely not for the bad and unrecognized bots or web scrapers. These unrecognized bots were ...