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Stories about: Wiseguys

CAPTCHA-Breaking Ticket Fraudsters Plead Guilty Three men who instrumented a scheme that relied on bypassing system restrictions to automatically buy tickets in bulk from legit distributors, pleaded guilty to fraud and hacking charges.The scheme ran under the cover of several companies, but its primary front was a firm called Wiseguys Tickets, through which the fr... 20 November 2010 05:25 GMT CAPTCHA-Breaking Botnet Used to Snatch Up Premium Tickets 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