Google's new bot prevention reCaptcha may not be as sophisticated as promised. In a blog post today, security company Shield Square wrote that the Google algorithm may be fairly easy for bots to ...

What do you put on your pancakes? Butter and syrup but not a pair of shoes? This makes sense to us, and it’s the premise of the new CAPTCHA game PlayThru. The space that is normally filled by nearly ...

The Gmail CAPTCHA has been cracked—albeit not easily—raising new concerns about spammers' ability to abuse Google's e-mail services. Websense Security Labs pointed out the security breach late last ...

It’s a simple question — one that most of us regularly answer in the form of a CAPTCHA, a hacker-averting quiz that asks us to distinguish a squiggly “l” from an “S,” or perhaps select all of the ...

Have you noticed that CAPTCHAs are getting more difficult to solve? CAPTCHAs, for those who’ve never heard of the internet, are those annoyingly ubiquitous prompts asking you to make sense of a ...

As shown in court documents, this is the 1stCAPTCHA site where Microsoft says the defendants sold CAPTCHA-solving tokens obtained by a fleet of bots. This is one of the domains seized by the company ...

The cyber-underground menu of criminal services now includes on-demand, human-assisted CAPTCHA-breaking functionality, researchers are warning — meaning that website admins should look to implement ...

Google has axed its manual Captcha security tool to make way for a new, invisible system that can automatically detect non-human website visitors. Until now, internet users have often been asked to ...

Spammers have cracked Microsoft Corp. ‘s latest defense against abuse of its Live Hotmail e-mail service using a sophisticated network of hacked computers that receive encrypted instructions from a ...