{"id":3163,"date":"2016-04-25T00:35:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T16:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/25\/why-messaging-bots-are-a-looming-security-threat\/"},"modified":"2016-04-25T00:35:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T16:35:46","slug":"why-messaging-bots-are-a-looming-security-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/25\/why-messaging-bots-are-a-looming-security-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Why messaging bots are a looming security threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bots are taking over our messaging apps.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Last week, at its F8 developer conference, Facebook revealed the first wave of Bots for Messenger<\/a>. These\u00a0automated, interactive programs respond to natural language and allow users to shop, order food, read the news and get personalized weather forecasts \u2014 all without leaving the Messenger app.<\/p>\n

Separately, messaging app Kik<\/a> also revealed its bot store, while Slack<\/a> and Telegram<\/a> have been experimenting with bots for some time. Microsoft also made a big push for bots at its Build 2016 conference, introducing developer tools<\/a> for creating bots for Skype and other Microsoft services. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

More about Google<\/a>, Microsoft<\/a>, Facebook<\/a>, Facebook Messenger<\/a>, and Bots<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bots are taking over our messaging apps.\u00a0 Last week, at its F8 developer conference, Facebook revealed the first wave of Bots for Messenger. These\u00a0automated, interactive programs respond to natural language and allow users to shop, order food, read the news … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1798,851,1792,850,1211],"class_list":["post-3163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-bots","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-messenger","tag-google","tag-microsoft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}