PALO ALTO--A team of Stanford University researchers has bad news to report about Captchas, those often unreadable, always annoying distorted letters that you're required to type in at many a Web site ...

D-Link have announced new CAPTCHA security for selected models in their router range, promising more resilience against DNS-altering malware and spyware. The new firmware – which is also available to ...

A core security mechanism that keeps us all safe online is likely to fail within the next few years. This could cause a massive rekeying of websites and big shifts in how we approach online security.

Engineers at Stanford University developed software that was able to unravel the security sequence, called a CAPTCHA, more than 40 percent of the time on eBay, 35 percent on Slashdot and one in four ...

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CAPTCHAs, or those jumbled words you have to enter to prove you’re a human on websites, suck. They detract from a website’s flow, and as security researchers at Imperva have found, they’re actually ...

Attackers are using optical character recognition and machine learning, as well as crowdsourcing through third parties, to solve a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers ...

CAPTCHA systems, which are designed to differentiate between human users and automated programmes, have become a pivotal component in securing digital services. Over recent years, the evolution of ...

As someone who has worked in cybersecurity for years, it’s been fascinating to watch the evolution of CAPTCHA. Whilst you’re probably familiar with the acronym, you may not know that CAPTCHA stands ...