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San Francisco, CA – January 13, 2020 – Distil Networks, the global leader in bot detection and mitigation, today announced its acquisition of managed security services provider ScrapeSentry, a spin-off of leading managed security firm Sentor. ScrapeSentry’s team of experienced... Read More

Want a table at that trendy restaurant? Oh, you can book it online! What? There are no available times open at all? Well how about in a week? No? A month? No? How about two months? Is this a joke? How can this be possible? This kind of conversations with your browser might not be... Read More

Is scraping illegal? This is a question you can find on many forums and a question that is very important to us at ScrapeSentry. One could claim that scraping data from a public website isn’t really “stealing”, but that it is simply exploiting resources that are made available... Read More

Web Scraping has become more popular in the year 2015 with more than thousands of websites being scraped daily. Because of the recent growth in scraping the methods and ways of scraping a website has changed. One of the bigger threats to sites are scrapers using python code to... Read More

Web scraping is a technique of extracting information over the web. Usually, information linked to products, services or price/discounts are targeted. For example, a start up might have the need to keep up with its competitor’s prices on various products or services.... Read More

Scrapers steal information from almost any site that has sellable and usable information. Usually the websites with more information and users are the bigger the targets. Sites like, monster.com and Indeed.com, are high priority targets for scrapers. They have a substantial... Read More

In its Scraping Threat Report 2015, issued today, the increasing threat to online businesses from data theft due to web scraping is outlined by global IT security industry experts ScrapeSentry. Analysis of ScrapeSentry’s Global Scraping Intelligence Platform, which is the largest... Read More

In today’s society, a person’s information is a click away, for web scrapers millions of people’s information is less than a click away. Web Scraping is becoming a very pertinent thing in today’s society and can cause a ton of damage to both businesses and customers alike. Web... Read More

Enforcing fees is critical to a successful program. Lufthansa recently announced that they are adding a Point of Sale fee for bookings through travel search engines, OTA’s (Online Travel Agents), and others who resell their tickets. For many years now the OTA’s have been reaping... Read More