Crying Babies Would Improve Audio CAPTCHAs
	CAPTCHAs are quite useless these days, especially when more and more hackers develop new techniques to break them. Companies around the world thought having found a solution, namely the audio CAPTCHAs, but the latest reports revealed that these are vulnerable too, even if they require users to enter an audio code. So, is there any chance to design unbreakable CAPTCHAs anytime soon? Experts say yes, pointing to more complex audio ... [read more >>]
	05 May 2008, 05:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hackers Cracked Google's Blogger CAPTCHA
	Following the recent reports that hackers managed to break into the Windows Live Hotmail CAPTCHA and to create email accounts for spamming purposes, another web-service gets compromised with the same goal. Google's Blogger, the free blogging platform which lets users create blogs and post messages from a web-based administration panel, is now being used by spammers to build page redirectors and websites hosting malicious fil ... [read more >>]
	25 April 2008, 08:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Live Hotmail CAPTCHA - Hacked in 6 Seconds
	The folks at Websense have managed to prove, once again, that an experienced spammer who attempts to create a large number of Microsoft Live Hotmail accounts to send spam messages doesn't need more than six seconds in order to bypass the CAPTCHAs. The reports comes after only a few days since several sources confirmed that hackers around the world are willing to hire and pay human workforce in order to enter the visual CAPTC ... [read more >>]
	14 April 2008, 10:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Spammers Need Human Workforce to Solve CAPTCHAs
	Since email spamming means sending messages to millions of users at a time, spammers need lots of email accounts in order to reach this goal. Because creating email accounts manually would be like swimming from UK to the US, they have created special bots supposed to register new usernames automatically. However, companies around the world have always struggled to block this attempt and implemented more and more powerful CAPTCHAs ... [read more >>]
	10 April 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Easy Could A CAPTCHA Be Broken ?
	CAPTCHA systems are widely used to protect various Internet services or applications of unauthorized access of robots or other types of automatic attacks. These type of security systems are also called "reverse Turing tests" and are implemented in blogs to prevent spam comments, in forums to stop multiple postings, in email service registration to prevent multiple accounts creation and so on. The role of a CAPTCH ... [read more >>]
	04 March 2008, 12:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The “Rape Now” CAPTCHA Is Surely an Unexpected Word Verification
	We all know how annoying a CAPTCHA is, but we've all understood that they are pretty useful when it comes to our security on the Internet. That's why we accept them even if sometimes we can't read them and type the text correctly. But, what if you are asked to reproduce some unexpected CAPTCHAs like "rape now", "wiped president" or "Toledo playmates"? That would be something... The fol ... [read more >>]
	13 December 2007, 02:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Bot Fooling Captchas Fools Google As Well
	It’s very good to know that some things work exactly as they should and are not corrupted or surpassed by the technological evolution we have going on at the moment. It’s a sight for sore eyes and when a simple Captcha manages to fool the great Google, it sort of fills my heart with joy. Not because I have anything against Google as a whole and I’d like to see its downfall, but every once in a while I like to see something non-Go ... [read more >>]
	27 November 2007, 13:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hot Blonde Working for Hackers
	Her name is Melissa and she's probably the hottest blonde who ever helped the hackers reach their goals. Roderick Ordoñez wrote on the official blog of the security company Trend Micro that a very attractive game which asks the users to enter a visual code in order to strip a girl is actually TROJ_CAPTCHAR.A. Because I'm sure you don't know how dangerous it is, you should know that this is a Trojan horse which is u ... [read more >>]
	31 October 2007, 10:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Make People Say What They Think about Your Work
	When you are a webmaster, one of the most important things you need to know is if your visitors are satisfied with your website or if your website represents what they need. For that you have 2 solutions: a simple form where they can write their impressions or a guestbook where they can see what other clients think about your website and leave their impressions and testimonials. Comdev Guestbook helps you know what others thin ... [read more >>]
	04 October 2007, 09:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

WOW! The Most Amazing Use for CAPTCHA!
	I can’t figure out where these guys come up with all these great ideas! I would have never thought of such an amazing use for the common CAPTCHA. The idea is very simple, yet I, for one, would have never thought of such a thing. Remember that piece of ... [read more >>]
	03 October 2007, 03:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ridiculous Security!
	I’ve always been a fan of tight security and I always say that the best modules need to be set up in order to keep things safe, but what I’ve seen is downright stupid! I was searching the Web for a press release when I accidentally bumped into this. Please click that link, otherwise it will be very hard ... [read more >>]
	19 September 2007, 10:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Cyber-Security Measure – Invisibility!
	Some time ago, there was some news about CAPTCHA code being easy to decrypt by bots and such and that not even this security measure can stop them. Well, here comes something new – the invisible CAPTCHA, which I think is going to make a difference. Now, for those of you that went: "What the heck is CAPTCHA?", let me explain things to you – have you ever visited a site and when you wanted to post a comment, the form o ... [read more >>]
	18 September 2007, 06:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo Messenger Gets CAPTCHA Security Feature
	The famous instant messaging client Yahoo gets a new security feature that is meant to enhance the chatting experience of the users. Basically, the parent company introduced a new function that can protect the users from annoying bots connected to the chat rooms. If you never met them, then you should know that they are extremely annoying because they send numerous messages to the connected users without any notification. The ... [read more >>]
	31 August 2007, 03:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Not Even CAPTCHA Is Secure Any More!
	For those of you that do not now, CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether the user is human or not. It stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. I'm sure you've seen it many times while browsing the Web, but you just didn't know it was named that way. You know when you want to create an account on some site, and besides all the ... [read more >>]
	23 August 2007, 11:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Security Verification for Google Search
	Sometimes, searching Google might return some unusual results that require you to enter a visual captcha in order to verify that you're a human person and not a computer program. However, some of the users might find this security verification very unpleasant and might decide to abandon the search technology and look for a simpler alternative. Still, why is this annoying captcha appearing? According to Niels Provos, Anti-Mal ... [read more >>]
	10 July 2007, 03:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia