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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 an online transaction rather than a...
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- RainMaker AutoPoster Basic 1.0.1 (Windows)
- Craigslist posting software, and automated classified posting tool. This software will do all your online marketing for you by placing your business advertisements on craigslist. Get back to succesfully running your business, and let this amazing equipment do your busines advertising. RainMaker will automatically bypass craigslist captchas, create craigslist accounts,...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Advertisement, Microsoft Windows, Rain-clouds
- Software downloads 2009-10-20
- New Koobface campaign spoofs Adobe's Flash updater
- Earlier this week, the botnet masters behind the most efficient social engineering driven botnet, Koobface, launched a new campaign currently spreading across Facebook with a new template spoofing Adobe's Flash updater embedded within a fake Youtube page. The malware campaign is relying on compromised legitimate web sites,...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., CAPTCHA, YouTube Inc., Social Engineering, Worm, Gang, Koobface, 0x3E8/youtube/console=yes/, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- ASP.NET CAPTCHA Control,Component 2.0 (Windows)
- The AspXtremeCaptcha .NET web control & compoment that creates and validates image and sound CAPTCHAs Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, which can easily be used from ASP.NET application with just drag & drop from the Visual Studio Toolbox, no need to modify the .config...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Microsoft ASP.NET, Microsoft Windows, Safabyte
- Software downloads 2009-09-29
- Google reCAPTCHA could raise bar in anti-bot, anti-spam battle
- Well what are other options?I'm not knocking your concern because it is a valid point. But does that mean we just leave everything open to bots and spammers? What could be done for the disabled? I thought reCAPTCHA had some ways of handling this.What about for the deaf-blind?Implement CAPTCHA or...
- Tags: anti-spam, reCAPTCHA, Amazon.com Inc., CAPTCHA, bot, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- Google buys reCAPTCHA: Digitize old books and fight spam
- Too Bad ..."They try to distinguish humans from robots when entering form data."Too bad they can't discriminate humans from 3rd World wage slaves decoding them for the spammers :(RE: Google buys reCAPTCHA: Digitize old books and fight spamCool from a machine learning standpoint but does this freak you out since...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Google buys reCAPTCHA, Google Buys, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- Google buys reCAPTCHA: Digitize old books and fight spam
- Captcha's are annoying, but necessary. They try to distinguish humans from robots when entering form data. One of the most terrifying problems with hosting your own content on the web is spam. These trolls will do anything to get you to click...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Inc., Optical Character Recognition, reCAPTCHA, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- BotDetect ASP.NET CAPTCHA 2.0.13 (Windows)
- BotDetect ASP.NET CAPTCHA is a website security component designed to protect your registration, comment, poll, guestbook, content submission, and other online forms from automated spam submissions. It generates CAPTCHA images with textual code rendered in them that are easily decipherable to humans -- but not to spam bots. In essence,...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Microsoft ASP.NET, Microsoft Windows, Lanap, BotDetect ASP.NET CAPTCHA, .Net, Xhtml, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Scripting Languages, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2009-07-08
- D-Link router's CAPTCHA flawed, WPA passphrase retrieved
- D-Link router's CAPTCHA flawed, WPA passphrase retrievedAny comment from Dlink yet?NTHow relevent is this?If you know what you are doing or just take the defaults, then the login to the router cannot happen from the internet side. This makes life a lot harder for crackers. As for WPA - USE...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Network security, Routers & switches, Wireless and Mobility, WPA, router, D-Link Router, CAPTCHA, D-Link Systems
- Discussion threads 2009-05-19
- D-Link router's CAPTCHA flawed, WPA passphrase retrieved
- It took only a week for the researchers at SourceSec to find a flaw in the CAPTCHA implementation of D-Link's recently introduced CAPTCHA in its routers, originally aimed to prevent DNS changing malware from automatically achieving its objective. According to SourceSec, the flawed...
- Tags: WPA, D-Link Systems, CAPTCHA, Passphrase, Router, Malware, Routers & Switches, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Network Technology, Networking, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- EziSubmit Pro 1.0.71 (Windows)
- Get your product seen in more places and get more links to your site. EziSubmit is a great way to upload your shareware or freeware. Increase your site's page ranking in google so you move towards the top of search engine results pages. Search Engine Optimization SEO requires links. Submit...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Microsoft Windows, Site, GssEziSoft, EziSubmit, Search
- Software downloads 2009-05-17
- D-Link adds CAPTCHA to home routers
- D-Link adds CAPTCHA to home routerstoo latehttp://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=4177RE: D-Link adds CAPTCHA to home routersbeen running that version of firmware for a few weeks, first thing i did was turn captcha off.The perils of logging in from the WAN.Just disable this feature and you will never have to worry about attempted break...
- Tags: Home networking, CAPTCHA, home router, D-Link Systems
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- D-Link adds CAPTCHA to home routers
- On the heels of a series of malware attacks targeting home routers, D-Link today announced the integration of a CAPTCHA system to its home and small office routers. The new CAPTCHA system will be particularly useful to thwart malicious attacks that target default passwords on routers to...
- Tags: D-Link Systems, CAPTCHA, Router, Routers & Switches, Home Networking, Network Technology, Networking, Personal Technology, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- D-Link adds CAPTCHA to home, small office routers
- D-Link adds CAPTCHA to home, small office routersDumb, Dumb, Dumb - can it be turned off?Would like to try the new firmware on my router but not if it requires this BS to log in....Try to implement CAPTCHA for the blind.And you will see why blind users wouldn't buy a...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, small office router, D-Link Systems, small office
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- D-Link adds CAPTCHA to home, small office routers
- The imperviousness of the CAPTCHA has a security measure has been hotly debated, but there have been enough compromised network stories in the headlines to prompt D-Link to integrate the technique into its home and small office routers. CAPTCHA, which stands for Completely Automated Public Turing...
- Tags: D-Link Systems, CAPTCHA, Router, Small Office, Home Networking, Networking, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- Google's CAPTCHA experiment and the human factor
- Google's CAPTCHA experiment and the human factorSadly, CAPTCHA is too limited for the objective.Although CAPTCHA is good enough at what the programmers intended (stopping 'bots) it is no longer useful for the business's root intent: stopping spammers.Unfortunately, it has become an annoyance to honest users and doesn't even slow the...
- Tags: Google Inc., CAPTCHA
- Discussion threads 2009-04-21
- Google's CAPTCHA experiment and the human factor
- Any research is prone to irrelevance if it starts with the wrong research questions, takes the wrong perspective, or in this case, attempts to fight the wrong enemy - automated bots attempting to recognize CAPTCHAs. Researchers at Google recently released a paper detailing a new CAPTCHA system...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Inc., Koobface Gang Mixing Social Engineering Vectors, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-04-21
- Google Research testing image CAPTCHA's
- Google Research testing image CAPTCHA'sThis is not a good ideaAnd is unfair to blind people, who contrary to popular assumptions do use the internet!The best 'captcha' is actually a captcha with a e-mail verification, like some forums I use are going to. They figure that if someone takes the time...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-19
- Google Research testing image CAPTCHA's
- Preventing bots from filling out forms automatically is a hard task. Researchers at Google have been thinking about more effective ways of achieving this goal. You have no doubt seen those jumbled up words that you have to decipher before you can submit a form -- well, that's...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Inc., Bot, Google Research, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2009-04-19
- Google rolls out annoying DoS CAPTCHA prompt?
- Google rolls out annoying DoS CAPTCHA prompt?Rolls out?This has been around for a couple of years at least. I've had it happen to me. If you are at a company and behind a proxy then I believe everyone at the company will get it because there seemed to be some...
- Tags: DoS CAPTCHA, DoS CAPTCHA prompt, Google-Roll, CAPTCHA, DOS
- Discussion threads 2009-02-23
- Google triggers annoying DoS CAPTCHA prompt?
- Twice today during work -- from the confines of Google Chrome, no less -- I've been prompted, while logged into Google, with a denial-of-service notice stating the following: We're sorry, but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users,...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Inc., DOS, Virus, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-23
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