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Captcha tests are rather ubiquitous online unfortunately. One of the most popular technology used comes from reCAPTCHA, a company Google bought a few years back. One of the interesting twists of reCAPTCHA is that some of the squiggly words are not distorted on purpose but, rather, are words that computers can't ... |
30 March 2012
09:01 GMT |
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It’s known that the success of a Facebook scam campaign largely depends on the number of Shares, Likes and comments the phony advertisement gets from real users. Crooks devised a new way to dupe customers into commenting on a scheme that ultimately leads to a survey.
Bitdefender experts reveal that it all star... |
12 March 2012
07:01 GMT |
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There has been a lot of debate lately on how challenging it is to create a software that can automatically break CAPTCHA security codes, some researchers even issuing advisories regarding the creation of strong CAPTCHAs. However, security experts found that a component of the ZeuS-like Cidrex Trojan was able to break... |
30 January 2012
07:39 GMT |
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A team of researchers from Stanford University managed to create a tool that deciphers the CAPTCHAs utilized by Wikipedia, eBay, CNN and other popular websites that rely on them to counterattack automated interactions.
“As a contribution toward improving the systematic evaluation and design of visual captchas,... |
31 October 2011
11:46 GMT |
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Captchas are a common sight across the web, but they're as annoying as they are secure. In fact, the more annoying they are, the more secure they are. Several companies are trying to change that and NuCaptcha, which creates embeddable video captchas, has released a new product which merges ads with the security ... |
25 October 2010
04:11 GMT |
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Bright, in-your-face ads that prevent you from getting where you want to go online are one of the biggest annoyances on the web. The second big annoyance are CAPTCHA tests to prove that you're a human. A company is now combining the two and claims to do it in a way that pleases both advertisers and users. Solve ... |
21 September 2010
06:37 GMT |
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Captchas are a fact of life online and few people have never encountered one on the web and, of those that have, few haven’t been frustrated by one at some point. Unfortunately, they do serve a purpose and many sites have been forced to implement such a system to keep out spammers and others up to no good. NuCa... |
30 June 2010
09:50 GMT |
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The perpetrators of a ticket fraud operation that made use of a botnet to subvert protection mechanisms enforced by ticket vendors were indicted earlier this week. The dedicated network of computers spread across the U.S. ran software that impersonated legit buyers and solved CAPTCHA tests.It's a well known fact... |
6 March 2010
05:53 GMT |
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Spam is as big a problem as always, recent studies found that as much as 95 percent of all email is spam. But it's not just email, spammers are always finding new avenues. As any bloggers who hosts their own blogs will tell you, spam in the comments is a huge problem. One way of deterring it is by using a CAPTCH... |
28 January 2010
02:19 GMT |
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The audio implementation of Carnegie Mellon University’s reCAPCTHA service has suffered a modification that improves its security and also helps preserve historical media. The audio version now plays short sentences from old radio shows that speech recognition software failed to transcribe automatically. CAPTCH... |
10 December 2008
06:07 GMT |
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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... |
5 May 2008
05:57 GMT |
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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-bas... |
25 April 2008
08:57 GMT |
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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 con... |
14 April 2008
10:14 GMT |
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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, com... |
10 April 2008
17:06 GMT |
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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,... |
4 March 2008
12:47 GMT |
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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 "r... |
13 December 2007
02:49 GMT |
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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 ... |
27 November 2007
13:51 GMT |
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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. Becau... |
31 October 2007
10:57 GMT |
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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 a... |
4 October 2007
09:59 GMT |
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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 news about Anti-Phishing Phil? It was a game supposed to teac... |
3 October 2007
03:14 GMT |
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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 for... |
19 September 2007
10:04 GMT |
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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 e... |
18 September 2007
06:36 GMT |
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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 ... |
31 August 2007
03:55 GMT |
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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 di... |
23 August 2007
11:04 GMT |
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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... |
10 July 2007
03:13 GMT |
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