Colin WatsonMar 17

The free OWASP Automated Threat Handbook defines a common language to identify and classify automated threats to web applications and relevant countermeasures.

https://owasp.org/www-project-automated-threats-to-web-applications/

#AccountAggregation #AccountCreation #CAPTCHADefeat #CardCracking #Carding #CashingOut #CostInflationFraud #CredentialCracking #CredentialStuffing #DenialOfInventory #DenialOfService #Expediting #Fingerprinting #Footprinting #Scalping #Scraping #Skewing #Sniping #Spamming #TokenCracking #VulnerabilityScanning

LusogeekNov 22, 2025

Australia adds Amazon's Twitch to teen social media ban, spares Pinterest

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/australia-adds-amazons-twitch-teen-social-media-ban-spares-pinterest-2025-11-21/

#amazon #twitch #twitchnews #twitchban #australia #australiaban #tech #technews #streaming #gaming #under16 #rules #socialmedia #socialmediaban #twitchaccounts #accountcreation

Show threadStrypeyJul 21, 2024

"[Dairyland.com founder Andrew ]Smales requires new users to pay a one-time $2 activation fee to prove they're not a spammer."

#MichelleSterling, 2014

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jp5vdg/the-antisocial-network-how-the-90s-internet-died-like-diaryland

Clever.

Imagine if every responsible email host in the world did this. It could have a similar effect to those 'digital stamp' proposals - tiny charges for sending email aimed at reducing spam - but without the unavoidable friction of avoidable micropayments;

https://freakonomics.com/2009/02/blnk/

#SpamPrevention #AccountCreation

The Antisocial Network: How the 90s Internet Died Like Diaryland

Before Facebook or Twitter, there was Diaryland. But it’s creator just wasn’t a Zuckerberg and it faded into oblivion.

cjsims3000Jul 19, 2024
Anyone managed to successfully create an x.com account? Have tried both manually creating and creating with Google/Apple sign up methods, however, the page is always hanging when I press the submit button. If someone is able to let me know how to do it, I will be greatful. #Twitter #X #AccountCreation
ITSEC NewsSep 10, 2019
ThreatList: Amidst Data Breaches, Account Creation Fraud Soars in 2019 - Cybercrooks are using bots to create synthetic digital identities, to carry out various types of f... more: https://threatpost.com/data-breaches-account-creation-fraud-soars-2019/148181/ #accountcreation #mobilesecurity #fakeidentities #firsthalf2019 #databreaches #websecurity #lexisnexis #threatlist #thereport #privacy #breach #hacks #fraud #bots
ThreatList: Amidst Data Breaches, Account Creation Fraud Soars in 2019

Cybercrooks are using bots to create synthetic digital identities, to carry out various types of fraud.

Threatpost - English - Global - threatpost.com