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»Datenleck durch Salesloft – Cloudflare, Palo Alto, Zscaler betroffen:
Viele Unternehmen sind von der Salesloft-Drift-Schwachstelle betroffen. Auch große und namhafte wie Cloudflare, Palo Alto und Zscaler.«
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Datenleck durch Salesloft: Cloudflare, Palo Alto, Zscaler betroffen
Viele Unternehmen sind von der Salesloft-Drift-Schwachstelle betroffen. Auch große und namhafte wie Cloudflare, Palo Alto und Zscaler.

Cloudflare says Perplexity uses stealth crawling techniques, like undeclared user agents and rotating IP addresses, to evade robots.txt rules and network blocks (Cloudflare)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stea…

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

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Cloudflare lässt KI-Crawler auflaufen, wenn nicht für Scraping bezahlt wird
Webseiten können nun von Cloudflare standardmäßig vor Crawler-Zugriffen geschützt werden. KI-Firmen können Betreiber aber auch für Content-Scraping bezahlen.

Don't miss today's Metacurity for a crush of infosec developments you should know, including
--Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks, and Zscaler are caught up in Salesloft Drift attacks,
--UK watchdog says military doesn't know Afghan breach-related costs are,
--Jaguar Land Rover hit by cyber incident,
--Amazon disrupted Midnight Blizzard op,
--Trump reactivates ICE spyware contract,
--Gov'ts are flocking to surveillanceware
--Hackers tried t…

Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks, and Zscaler are caught up in Salesloft Drift attacks
UK watchdog says military doesn't know Afghan breach-related costs are, Jaguar Land Rover hit by cyber incident, Amazon disrupted Midnight Blizzard op, Trump reactivates ICE spyware contract, Gov'ts are flocking to surveillanceware, much more

AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare.
On Monday, Cloudflare published research saying it observed the AI startup ignore blocks and hide its crawling and scraping activities.
The network infrastructure giant accused Perplexity of obscuring its identity when trying to scrape web pages “in an attempt to circumvent the website’s prefe…

Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping | TechCrunch
Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape their pages.

A whistleblower details Clothoff, an AI-powered nudify app that owns 10 similar services; Clothoff had 27M visitors in H1 2024 and produced 200K images daily (Spiegel Online)
https://www.spiegel.de/internationa…

Using AI to Humiliate Women: The Men Behind Deepfake Pornography
AI-generated naked images of real women is the business model behind Clothoff, a dubious "nudify" app that has millions of visitors. Now, a whistleblower has provided details of just how cynical the site's operators are.

Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default
The internet architecture provider will also let some publishers make known AI scrapers pay to crawl their sites
https://www.theverge.com/news/695501/cloudflare-block-ai-crawlers-default

Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default
Cloudflare has announced that it will now block AI web crawlers by default for new customers. It’s also introducing a new “Pay Per Crawl” fee that will let some publishers make AI companies pay to scrape their content.

Taiwan's chip sector is cultivating overseas talent with summer camps and university courses to address a shortage of skilled professionals and production staff (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific