Did You Know?

Humans generate only 49% of all Internet traffic.

So where does all the other traffic come from ?

According to Incapsula, a cloud-based security service, 51% of internet activity is created by bots.

These bots include search engines like Google 
and represent 20 percent of internet traffic. 
These are the good guys.

 Then there are the bad guy bots... 31% of all internet traffic. 
They work relentlessly to worm their way into our computers. 

Here's the breakdown on the bad guys:

 

Hacking tools 5%
software that visits a site to crash it or steal data

Scrapers 5% 

  pull info from one site and publish it to another to pillage search-engine traffic

Comment spammers 2%

  post malware and other annoying content to bog down a site 

Spyware 19% 

 covertly gathers info from your site

  Who knew?

As I said in my last post...

It's a crazy world out there. 

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So what can you do to protect yourself? 

1. Make sure your passwords are strong and updated often.  

This is most important!

Follow the guidelines I linked to in my previous post.

2. Disable the "right-click" feature on your blog.

Google to find options to add a gadget that disables "right-click". 

I picked one that I'm most comfortable with and installed it.  

None of my content can be right-clicked to copy now. 

There are other ways to steal content, but it requires more work than a simple right-click.

3. Enable a spam filter for your comments. 

I use blogspots, (find it in your comment settings) it does the job extremely well.  

Once every few weeks I delete the spam comments in the filter 

and rescue an occasional sweet comment that got lost in there.

It's interesting to note that web site analytics record what real people do on a site

 but most web site traffic comes from other computers often with malicious intent. 

Stats overview in blogger also lists the bots traffic. 

Interesting to know, but don't let your curiosity entice you to follow their link... 

you just may be opening 
a can of nasty worms.  

Applause and gratitude to the following major players in this post:

The seashore off the coast of Carlsbad, CA.
I spent some quality time with my honey 
walking those beaches last week.

 The Pelicans of San Diego... 
they make a fine substitute for bots, don't ya think?

The Seagulls on the shore
whose reflections appear to be copies. 
(Ok maybe that was a long shot here.) 

The cliffs of Point Loma
They did a great job at representing 
clear and present danger.  

  And to YOU... my Dear Readers

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