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- CAPTCHA
- Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart A category of technologies used to ensure that a human is making the transaction online rather than a...
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- Spam coming from free email providers increasing
- After analyzing three weeks of spam data between June 13 to July 3, 2008, Roaring Penguin Software Inc. found evidence that spam originating from the top three free email providers (Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail) is increasing, with spammers in favor of abusing Gmail's privacy preserving feature of not including...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Gmail, Free Email Company, Anti-spam, Spammer, E-mail Company, IP, Service, Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Networking, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Google Group Genius (exe)
- GoogleGroups Automated Submission Software. This Powerful New Software Quickly Enables you to post your ads on virtually unlimited GoogleGroupsTM Pages Quickly and Easily. 100% fully automated, with the exception of captcha verification image codes but we have even made that part super fast and easy. This version is the first...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Inc., MB Computerservices
- Software downloads 2008-07-16
- YouTube Genius (exe)
- YouTube Automated Submission Software. This new software quickly enables you to post your ads on unlimited YouTubeTM Video Pages quickly and easily. This New Software will enable you to cut the time ad posting takes to mere seconds. 100% fully automated, with the exception of captcha verification image codes (but...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Advertisement, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, MB Computerservices, Corporate Communications, Web Browsers, Marketing, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-07-16
- Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers
- Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammersIt is impossible to manage...networks the size of Google with technology alone. It takes a real live person. Now we can expect more spam coming from these networks. Spam that will be harder to filter. If these companies can't manage their networks in...
- Tags: Spam, E-mail providers, Yahoo! Inc., Google Gmail, CAPTCHA, spammer, MSN Hotmail
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers
- Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services, and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes. ...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, MSN Hotmail, Google Gmail, Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, HIP Character, E-mail Providers, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Craigslist Genius (exe)
- Craigslist Auto Posting and Submission Software. This new software quickly enables you to post your ads to craigslist quickly and easily. This Cutting-Edge Explosive New Software will enable you to cut the time ad posting takes to mere seconds! 100% fully automated, with the exception of captcha verification image codes...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Craigslist, Advertisement, MB Computerservices
- Software downloads 2008-07-03
- Microsoft's CAPTCHA successfully broken
- Microsoft's CAPTCHA successfully brokenWhat of ReCaptcha?What about recaptcha, where the words are known to be difficult to read by OCR?http://recaptcha.net/
- Tags: Microsoft CAPTCHA, CAPTCHA, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-01
- Microsoft's CAPTCHA successfully broken
- UPDATE: Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers. 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", demonstrating how they've managed to attack the Microsoft's CAPTCHA used on...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Microsoft Corp., Vladuz, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-31
- Major career web sites hit by spammers attack
- What is the future of spamming next to managed spamming appliances, like the ones already offered for use on demand? It's targeted spamming going beyond the segmentation of the already harvested emails on per country basis, and including other variables such as city of residence, employment history, education, spoken languages,...
- Tags: Job, CAPTCHA, Web, Career, Spammer, Malware, Web Site, Spamming, Tool, Attack, E-mail, Spam, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Websense: Microsoft Live Hotmail CAPTCHA hacked in 6 seconds
- Websense: Microsoft Live Hotmail CAPTCHA hacked in 6 secondsYahoo is implementing CAPTCHA at the send...level. So every mail you send requires you enter a capycha response. Totally not acceptable.This is why large networks like Google, MS Live, etc. will simply not serve the enterprise like all the bloggers think.It is...
- Tags: web computing, CAPTCHA, Microsoft Live Hotmail CAPTCHA, Websense Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-14
- Websense: Microsoft Live Hotmail CAPTCHA hacked in 6 seconds
- Websense says that hackers have streamlined their anti-CAPTCHA tools and can attack Microsoft's Live Hotmail service in about 6 seconds. Websense has been on the CAPTCHA case for a while and the latest attack on Microsoft's Hotmail is an evolutionary leap because hackers' tools are automated and...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, MSN Hotmail, Websense Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Google: CAPTCHAs aren't dead yet
- Google: CAPTCHAs aren't dead yetThe process doesn't matter.The process is irrelevant. One of the main purposes of CAPTCHAs is to prevent a blog or forum from having spam posted on it. If the owner can't count on CAPTCHAs to prevent that they now have to moderate, a practice that is...
- Tags: Spam, Google Inc., CAPTCHA
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
- Google: CAPTCHAs aren't dead yet
- CAPTCHAs, those fuzzy letters that are supposed to ensure you're a human when you register for an account, have been under fire of late, but Google says their demise is greatly exaggerated. That's the takeaway from a post by Brad Stone in the New York Times Bits...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Inc., Hacker, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- MySpace CAPTCHA seen as vulnerable
- MySpace CAPTCHA seen as vulnerablethat solution is deadit is the old form myspace captcha, after the time it was cracked, myspace develop a totally different captcha system with much more complexityyou can check around the internet, there is no more ocr solution now, but hackers are still advancingI get a...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, MySpace
- Discussion threads 2008-03-12
- If+CAPTCHAs+are+decommissioned+what+comes+next%3F
- If+CAPTCHAs+are+decommissioned+what+comes+next%3FWell ...And im so going to anger the privacy advocates here...Maybe we can create a token system. I want to sign up for a service at say, ZDNet, WELL I proceed with my sign up...however, I also have to insert a token into my computer (that through a special ACTIVX,...
- Tags: CAPTCHA
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- If CAPTCHAs are decommissioned what comes next?
- CAPTCHAs sound like a great idea. Give humans a little test to verify they aren't machines, verify an account and thwart hackers. But CAPTCHAs no longer offer a good defense to thwart malicious hackers. So what's next? Last week, Websense noted that Google's Gmail CAPTCHA was busted....
- Tags: CAPTCHA, CAPACHA, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Microsoft Windows Live Mail's CAPTCHA defense falls to spam bots
- Microsoft Windows Live Mail's CAPTCHA defense falls to spam botsI'll second that...They, or someone, has also figured how to do the same with Yahoo accounts. One of my email accounts, not Hotmail or Yahoo, gets 5 - 10 spams a day from Hotmail, Yahoo US, Yahoo UK, Yahoo Taiwan,...
- Tags: Operating systems, CAPTCHA, CAPTCHA defense, Microsoft Windows Live Mail, spam bot, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Live, WLM, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-02-07
- Microsoft Windows Live Mail's CAPTCHA defense falls to spam bots
- Microsoft's Windows Live Mail is being targeted by spammers adept at eluding CAPTCHA protection, according to Websense. According to Websense, spammers have created bots that are capable of creating random Live Mail accounts and then using them to launch attacks. In other words, the CAPTCHA defense doesn't...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Microsoft Windows Live Mail, Websense Inc., Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Bot, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- This stripper is paid in Captchas
- This stripper is paid in CaptchasDistributed wetware computing? nt.Couldnt capcha block remote linking?just a thought.RE: This stripper is paid in CaptchasDon't they know this will make them go blind?This is not really new.This is pretty old news. I've heard about this theoretical "porn site" attack against Captchas for a...
- Tags: CAPTCHA
- Discussion threads 2007-10-30
- This stripper is paid in Captchas
- Spammers have a new way around captchas: A virtual stripper who is paid when you fork over scrambled text messages, known as Captchas. The BBC is reporting that a Windows game shows a woman in "a state of undress" when a person correctly types in a Captcha--those...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, British Broadcasting Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
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