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If you want to prevent automated hacking and cracking tools from gaming your online authentication systems you’ll probably be using a CAPTCHA test (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell ...

Thanks to the wonderful world of spammers most websites these days rely on CAPTCHA images to force users to prove they are human before accepting comments or other user feedback. In fact humans solve ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Google has announced that it is killing the classic CAPTCHA and replacing it with a new API dubbed 'noCAPTCHA reCAPTCHA', where users simply tick a box to confirm they are human. First introduced to ...

Google has fixed a flaw in its Audio CAPTCHA software that could have given scammers a way to automatically set up phoney accounts with the company's services. Google has fixed a flaw in its Audio ...

A technology start-up said on Monday that it had come up with software that works like a human brain in one key way: it can crack CAPTCHAs, the strings of tilted, squiggly letters that websites employ ...

Are you human? It just got a lot harder for websites to tell. An artificial intelligence system has cracked the most widely used test of whether a computer user is a bot. And according to its ...

Facebook is asking you to put a name to a face in the name of security with new 'social authentication', meaning you don't have to mess around with those silly captcha thingies. Richard Trenholm ...

On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog. Or a rogue robot program stealthily gathering personal information from chat rooms or registering for thousands of free e-mail accounts from which to blast ...