Angela Gunn writes " Spammers have figured out a way to get around certain implementations of CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) and thus abuse Blog read more » DiscussBury
Pligg reports on a security issue that can allow exploit software such as Auto-Pligg to bypass Pligg's default captcha and submit stories without registration. read more » 1 CommentBury
"Jeff Yan and Ahmad Salah El Ahmad, at the School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, England recently published a research paper entitled "A Low-cost Attack on a Microsoft CAPTCHA..." read more » DiscussBury
Recent high-profile failures in both Hotmail's and Gmail's CAPTCHA humanity-authentication systems have left some wondering if CAPTCHA's time had passed. A newly-developed image-based system shows gr read more » DiscussBury
MS Live/Hotmail CAPTCHAs can now be broken within 60 seconds allowing a single bot to create and use over 14,000 email addresses per day. This illustrates the limited capabilities of CAPTCHAs. read more » DiscussBury
Teenage boys may soon be providing major manpower for spammers who are attempting to crack CAPTCHAs (graphics with text specifically designed to confound automated attempts to access or create inform read more » DiscussBury
Some tech. guys were sitting around thinking about the problem with blog comments and determined that the problem is not just spam, but stupid comments written by people who haven't read the post. T read more » DiscussBury
