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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Proton, the company behind the end-to-end encrypted Proton Mail, has released PRoton CAPTCHA, a layered system to differentiate between humans and bots. For the past decade-and-a-half, CAPTCHAs and ...

A new bot can crack defenses erected by Microsoft to keep spammers from creating large numbers of accounts on its Live Hotmail service within seconds, a security researcher said Friday. Dan Hubbard, ...

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 ...

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 ...