Posted on July 18, 2021 in Security • Tagged with Internet Bots, CAPTCHA, Bot Detection • 15 min read
There are unique challenges when developing a passive bot detecting system. In this blog article, I explain some of the obstacles that need to be overcome in order to detect advanced bots without presenting a CAPTCHA. I also explain how bot programmers can benefit from the architectural challenges that bot detection systems inherently suffer from.
Posted on June 20, 2021 in Security • Tagged with API, IP-Address-Check, Datacenter, Cloud-Provider • 3 min read
For security reasons, it's often helpful to check if an IP Address belongs to a datacenter or cloud computing provider such as Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure. Therefore, I have developed a simple public API that helps you to check if an IP address belongs to a datacenter / cloud provider.
Posted on June 07, 2021 in Security • Tagged with proxy-detection, anti-scraping • 10 min read
VPN's and Proxy Servers can be detected by comparing latencies measured with JavaScript in the browser with the corresponding latency of the TCP/IP handshake on the server.
Posted on June 05, 2021 in Security • Tagged with proxy-provider, bot-detection, anti-scraping • 10 min read
In this blog article I demonstrate several bullet-proof ways how to detect Brightdata Data Collector as a bot without any doubt.
Posted on April 24, 2021 in Security • Tagged with Proxy Detection • 7 min read
Posted on April 11, 2021 in Security • Tagged with Behavioral Analysis, Bot Detection • 4 min read
Behavioral analysis is an interesting approach to detect bots. It surely is not the panacea for bot detection, but it certainly is an useful extension in your bot hunting tool belt.