When the internet first emerged, the need for load balancers was mainly to optimize the growing use of PC servers and to support the surge in Web traffic. Their basic functionality was designed to pool server resources to meet this demand.

Load balancers have come a long way since, becoming broadly accepted as essential for evolving IT infrastructure and the exponential growth of apps.

Over 58,000 unique websites from around the world are vulnerable to data breaches and even complete takeovers according to new research.

The Cybernews research team has investigated publicly exposed environment files (.env) that should be kept private and protected at all costs. These files hold passwords, API keys, and other secrets that websites need to access databases, mail servers, payment processors, content management systems, and various other services.

Organizations have grappled with business threats posed by various automated bots and crawlers over the years. The latest flavor to take the spotlight is AI crawlers which source proprietary content to feed the AIs they serve.

We spoke to Eyal Benishti, CEO of IRONSCALES, to discuss AI crawlers and why it's important for security teams to establish boundaries for their use.

Microsoft has announced a series of updates to Edge for Business aimed at making the browser a more attractive proposition for enterprises.

Launched at Build yesterday, new features include screenshot prevention in order to block data exfiltration, this also applies to Copilot prompts and responses. There's also improved leak protection for sensitive documents.

We tend to think of the internet as being something that's the same all over the world, but with nations like China, India and Russia increasingly closing off the wider web to their citizens, is the global nature of the internet under threat?

We spoke to Ruoting Sun, VP of Product at Secureframe about the phenomenon of 'internet fracturing' and what it means for businesses.

More than half of respondents (53 percent) to a new survey say their existing cybersecurity solutions do not effectively address website impersonation attacks, and 41 percent say their existing solutions only partially protect them and their customers.

The study from Memcyco, based on research from Global Surveyz, finds just six percent of brands claim to have a solution that effectively addresses these attacks despite 87 percent of companies recognizing website impersonation as a major issue and 69 percent admitting to having had these attacks carried out against their own website.

For banks, know-your-customer (KYC) measures amount to 40 percent of all anti money laundering (AML) compliance costs, totaling $5.7 million each year. This sum is tiny, however, compared to what is paid for non-compliance. In 2022, global fines for inadequate AML grew by 50 percent, almost reaching $5 billion.

We spoke to Vaidotas Šedys, head of risk management at web intelligence platform Oxylabs, to discover that KYC-related challenges are not just faced by banks but are an issue for proxy and web scraping service providers too.

In 2025, a new European Accessibility Act comes into force with the aim of ensuring equal access to digital products and services across the EU.

This will apply to all businesses that wish to trade in Europe, but a new report from testing specialist Applause shows that while a third of global companies are on track to comply with the EAA, over third of European companies are trailing behind.

Governments around the world have been busily introducing privacy rules over the last few years and only this month the US Congress introduced a draft of a new federal law, the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA).

But how do you know if the websites you use are following the rules? ImmuniWeb is launching a new free website privacy test with checks and verifications that cover specific requirements of the majority of modern privacy, data protection and consumer protection laws in the US, UK, Europe and other regions.

A new report from Imperva finds that 49.6 percent of all internet traffic came from bots in 2023, a two percent increase over the previous year, and the highest level since the company began monitoring automated traffic in 2013.

The proportion of web traffic associated with bad bots grew to 32 percent in 2023, up from 30.2 percent in 2022, while traffic from human users decreased to 50.4 percent. Automated traffic is costing organizations billions of dollars annually due to attacks on websites, APIs, and applications.

Bots have been around for a long time, but they're now much more sophisticated, capable of mimicking human behavior, evading detection, and perpetrating a wide range of malicious activities.

A new report from CHEQ shows that latest bots are able to scrape data without permission, inflate engagement metrics, commit fraud, and compromise the security and integrity of websites, mobile apps, and APIs.

New research from Barracuda finds that 30 percent of all attacks against web applications target security misconfigurations -- such as coding and implementation errors.

Analysis of incidents detected and mitigated by Barracuda Application Security during December shows 21 percent involved code injection. Though these were more than just SQL injections, generally designed to steal, destroy, or manipulate data.

Cybersecurity company NordVPN is launching a new, free tool to allow users to check the safety of a website before visiting it.

Link Checker scans a site for different types of malware and delivers a notification about whether it's fake or infected with phishing scams.

Traditional content management systems (CMS) developed at a time when all that was needed was to post some text and a few images. But as consumer and business needs have evolved they can prove to be a bottleneck when it comes to innovating and improving a web presence.

Michael Lukaszczyk, the CEO and co-founder of content platform Hygraph, argues that enterprises need a future-proof solution. We talked to him to find out more.

We hear a lot about the negative aspects of the internet, but a new report from Atlas VPN shows that internet users aged 50 and older have a 33 percent lower risk of death than non-users.

Older adults who use the internet have a 19 percent lower risk of a stroke than those who do not, while internet use among individuals aged 50 and above is also associated with a 17 percent lower risk of diabetes.