Perplexity Stealth Crawlers Evade No-Crawl Directives - 2025-08-04

Perplexity Stealth Crawlers Evade No-Crawl Directives - 2025-08-04

1:03:31 Aug 7, 2025
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? SOC Summit 2026https://www.antisyphontraining.com/event/soc-summit/Register for FREE Infosec Webcasts, Anti-casts & Summits – https://poweredbybhis.com00:00:00 - PreShow Banter™ — Stop Asking Wade if he’s in Vegas00:02:16 - Perplexity Uses Stealth Crawlers to Evade No-Crawl Directives – 2025-08-0400:11:25 - Story # 1: Insurance won’t cover $5M in City of Hamilton claims for cyberattack, citing lack of log-in security00:18:40 - Story # 2: States Enact Safe Harbor Laws that Provide Affirmative Defenses in Data Breach Litigation00:26:45 - Story # 3: Hackers Destroy Aeroflot’s IT Infrastructure, Causing Over 42 Flight Cancellations00:34:18 - Story # 4: Attackers exploit link-wrapping services to steal Microsoft 365 logins00:40:09 - Story # 5: Mozilla flags phishing wave aimed at hijacking trusted Firefox add-ons00:42:18 - Wade’s plugin recommendation00:44:39 - Story # 6: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives00:51:11 - Story # 7: After Backlash, ChatGPT Removes Option to Have Private Chats Indexed by Google00:55:21 - AI 202701:01:01 - What’s Ralph been up to? (00:00) - PreShow Banter™ — Stop Asking Wade if he's in Vegas (02:39) - Perplexity Uses Stealth Crawlers to Evade No-Crawl Directives – 2025-08-04 (11:48) - Story # 1: Insurance won't cover $5M in City of Hamilton claims for cyberattack, citing lack of log-in security (19:02) - Story # 2: States Enact Safe Harbor Laws that Provide Affirmative Defenses in Data Breach Litigation (27:07) - Story # 3: Hackers Destroy Aeroflot’s IT Infrastructure, Causing Over 42 Flight Cancellations (34:41) - Story # 4: Attackers exploit link-wrapping services to steal Microsoft 365 logins (40:32) - Story # 5: Mozilla flags phishing wave aimed at hijacking trusted Firefox add-ons (42:40) - Wade’s plugin recommendation (45:01) - Story # 6: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives (51:33) - Story # 7: After Backlash, ChatGPT Removes Option to Have Private Chats Indexed by Google (55:43) - AI 2027 (01:01:23) - What’s Ralph been up to?
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