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 ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

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 ...

A new login authentication approach could improve the security of current biometric techniques that rely on video or images of users' faces. Known as Real-Time Captcha, the technique uses a unique ...

If you use the web for more than just browsing (that's pretty much everyone), chances are you've had your fair share of "CAPTCHA rage," the frustration stemming from trying to discern a marginally ...

How do you let people create user accounts or post comments on your Web site without letting spam bots in? Simple — make your users prove they’re human. Many Web sites use CAPTCHA (Completely ...

Advanced AI can defeat CAPTCHAs designed to prove web actions are being performed by humans instead of machines, new research indicates. "Current AI technologies can exploit advanced image-based ...

After the German Federal Office for Information Security warned about fake captchas on Mastodon, these annoying things are a hot topic everywhere. Everyone has already come into contact with various ...

It’s not as if it hasn’t been done before, but researchers at Stanford quantified ways to crack the CAPTCHA test many web sites use to make users prove they’re human, and recommended ways to make sure ...