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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

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

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Weak passwords dominate statistics for Hotmail's phishing scheme leak

The recently leaked accounting data of thousands of Hotmail users -- Gmail has also been affected -- obtained through what appears to be a badly executed phishing campaign, once again puts the spotlight on the how bad password management practices remain an inseparable part of the user-friendly ecosystem. ...

Tags: MSN Hotmail, Password, Phishing, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-10-06

News to know: RSA, AMD; Yahoo; Windows 8; $200 'Mac'

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. RSA Conference: Tom Foremski: A conversation with Check Point's Gil Schwed Symantec CEO: The future of security [video] RSA chief calls for...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, RSA Security Inc., Apple Macintosh, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-04-22

News to know: RIM, Facebook TOS, Apple-Adobe, Android

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Andrew Nusca: SEC charges RIM, 4 senior execs with stock option backdating Sam Diaz: Facebook's TOS debacle: Be upset...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Facebook, Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Mobile, Dana Blankenhorn, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Advertising & Promotion, Smart Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 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

Spammers attacking Microsoft's CAPTCHA -- again

Never let a human do a malware infected host's CAPTCHA recognition job. On their way to abuse the DomainKeys verified server reputation in order increase the probability of their spam emails reaching the receipts, spammers and malware authors are once again attempting to break Microsoft's "revisited" CAPTCHA, and are able...

Tags: CAPTCHA, Spammer, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-09-30

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

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

Microsoft CardSpace killed before it really began?

According to Neowin, computing students at the University of Bochum, Germany, have worked out how to retrieve vital security tokens from Microsoft's CardSpace framework. CardSpace is highly tipped to be the successor to Windows Live ID Passport and making passwords a relic of the Cold War, using self-signed or certificate...

Tags: DNS, Microsoft Windows CardSpace, Security Token, Microsoft Corp., Domain Names, Digital Security, Security, Networking, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-05-31

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

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