Google researcher presents video Captcha
News The 'Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart' (Captcha) is designed to prevent abuse of websites, and normally involves users being presented with obscured text that they must recognise and enter into a dialogue...
[July 13, 2009, 16:03]
Hotlan Trojan defeats captcha
News A new Trojan horse that sends spam through Hotmail and Yahoo email accounts has antivirus companies worried that the commonly used "captcha" system, used to prove new members are real people, may have been compromised.
[July 6, 2007, 12:14]
Anti-spam tool helps digitise books
News The project is a variation of the widely used "Captcha" (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) technique used to weed out computer abuse such as emailing spam or posting spam on blog comments.
[May 25, 2007, 13:11]
Symantec warns of spam 'triple threat'
News Paul Wood, MessageLabs intelligence senior analyst, Symantec, said in a statement on Tuesday that spammers are combining three more established spam techniques — Captcha-breaking, social-networking spam and using web mail — in an attempt to fool...
[May 29, 2009, 16:42]
Spammers use free porn to bypass Hotmail protection
News In order to combat this automation, Web mail companies started using the Captcha test (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), which creates a graphically distorted representation of a simple word that can...
[May 6, 2004, 18:00]
Facebook closes fake profiles spreading malware
News Clearly, the Data Snatchers have found a way to automate the creation of Facebook accounts, which means they've found a way to bypass the Facebook Captcha," Roger Thompson, chief of research at AVG, wrote in a blog post.
[October 2, 2009, 8:56]
Storm worm spammers exploit Halo 3 buzz
News A similar vulnerability is being exploited in the case of YouTube, said Anstis, adding that spammers have used intelligent character recognition (ICR) software to circumvent the verification system commonly known as Captcha.
[October 10, 2007, 8:44]
Twitter hack details revealed
News The brute-force attack was made easier by Twitter having no limitations on login attempts, including not using a Captcha challenge-response process. Most websites, after three failed login attempts, will ask you to answer a Captcha," the sender of...
[January 7, 2009, 13:36]
Google acquires ReCaptcha for book scanning
News ReCaptcha is an offshoot of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, and puts a twist on the traditional captcha: a string of letters in squiggly text meant to confuse spam bots and other non-human web pests.
[September 17, 2009, 15:27]
Jackson death prompts malware alert at Google
News The page asked users to enter a Captcha code in order to continue their searches. The breaking news of Michael Jackson's death on Thursday triggered an alert at Google over a potential malware attack.
[June 26, 2009, 11:08]
Microsoft workers seek Office suggestions
News I'm a huge fan of crowd-sourcing, and love Dell's IdeaStorm website, so I thought I'd build one for Office," Zaske wrote, adding that he and Office software design engineer Luke Foust had disabled the site's Captcha identity verification system...
[August 12, 2009, 11:50]
Spammers using Google Sites to bypass filters
News The Google Sites abuse indicates that spammers are becoming more advanced at getting around the Captcha (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) mechanisms used to defend against the automated sign-up tools...
[August 5, 2008, 15:03]
Facebook worm exploits Google's reputation
News In order to achieve this, the attackers had to register their own Google Reader accounts either by themselves or through automated methods using phishing sites or so-called Captcha solvers. For most Facebook users, it is common to receive a message...
[October 30, 2008, 9:42]
