While puzzling captchas—from dogs in hats to sliding jockstraps—still exist, most bot-deterring challenges have vanished into ...

Overview CAPTCHA keeps websites safe by preventing bots from accessing services.Advanced bots are improving, so CAPTCHA must evolve continuously.Future CAPTCHA ...

When you see the dog-eared girl with the magnifying glass, you're just encountering an Anubis checkpoint. Anubis is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new report hinted at bots’ increasing prowess at solving modern and advanced CAPTCHAs prompting Elon Musk to give a shout-out to Twitter, now rebranded as X’s paid subscription service. What ...

A recent study has found that robots have a higher success rate in solving so-called CAPTCHA tests than human beings. CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and ...

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

Artificial intelligence (AI) has reportedly demonstrated its superiority over humans when it comes to solving online CAPTCHA tests designed to differentiate between human users and automated bots. Can ...

Spammers are using a bot to sidestep barriers that Microsoft Corp. has erected to keep scammers from creating massive numbers of accounts on its Live Mail service, a security researcher said today.

Why it matters: The usefulness of Captcha tests depends on their ability to deter bots without significantly inconveniencing human users. Although not yet peer-reviewed, the results of a new study ...