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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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- 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 1.00.0071 (Windows)
- Get more sales. Sell more software. Get on more software download sites. 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...
- Tags: Software, CAPTCHA, Software Download, Microsoft Windows, Site, GssEziSoft, EziSubmit, Tools & Techniques, Search, Management
- 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
- Spammers break Microsoft Live Hotmail CAPTCHA
- Spammers break Microsoft Live Hotmail CAPTCHAWell... Not exactly..But you just did....But surely even the M$ apologists wouldn't be stupid enoughTo say [i]that[/i]. Even Yahoo mail has a higher market share then [i]hotmail[/i], and Yahoo mail pales in comparison to Gmail..Microsoft is the ...It seems Microsoft is the Play ground for...
- Tags: Spam, CAPTCHA, Microsoft Corp., Play Ground, Microsoft Live Hotmail CAPTCHA
- Discussion threads 2009-02-18
- Spammers break Microsoft Live Hotmail CAPTCHA...again
- The latest version of Microsoft Live Hotmail's CAPTCHA authentication system has been broken, reports InfoWorld via security company Websense. According to a detailed analysis of the latest hack by Websense, spammers have come up with a new scheme to fool the...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, MSN Hotmail, Spammer, Websense Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- News to know: Google Chrome; CAPTCHA breaking; StatusHQ
- News to know: Google Chrome; CAPTCHA breaking; StatusHQI need captcha entry workDear sir Take my salam we 7 years experience in this field. we have 30 pc 90 worker & we have 24/7 nonstop support worker. If you have posible pls send me your captcha work, our contact number workcaptcha@yahoo.com...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, StatusHQ, Google Chrome, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-01-09
- Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail systematically abused by spammers
- With the industry's eyes constantly monitoring the usual suspects' use of phony hosting providers, another market segment within the underground marketplace has been developing beneath the radar, aiming to build a malicious infrastructure (Spammers targeting Bebo, generate thousands of bogus accounts; Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack) through...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, MSN Hotmail, Google Gmail, Anti-spam, Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Spam, Internet, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- Audio CAPTCHAs easy to crack, according to researchers
- Audio CAPTCHAs easy to crack, according to researchersI'm visually/hearing impaired.But that doesn't mean I'm blind and deaf. Those who are blind and deaf can honestly not use CAPTCHA. I mean, it does not work with Braille displays out there in the market: the screen reader cannot read text from images...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Audio CAPTCHA
- Discussion threads 2008-12-08
- Audio CAPTCHAs easy to crack, according to researchers
- A great story over at Ars Technica today details the efforts of the Carnegie-Mellon University team behind the reCAPTCHA service, who has turned its attention to the audio CAPTCHAs used by the visually impaired. These audio CAPTCHAs consist of a string of spoken characters, typically masked and distorted by...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Audio, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-08
- Spammers attacking Microsoft's CAPTCHA -- again
- Spammers attacking Microsoft's CAPTCHA -- againI'm all for shutting down...mail servers that are spamming. No matter how big they are. If my server started spamming, my ISP would give me one shot to clean it up. If I didn't or couldn't it would be blocked. Just because it's Microsoft doesn't...
- Tags: Spam, spammer, CAPTCHA, Microsoft CAPTCHA, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
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