For years, CAPTCHA has been the first line of defense for websites attempting to ward off spambots. But at a time when bot technology is beginning to rival human faculties, many Web developers have ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a move that could make CAPTCHA challenges a bit easier for humans and more difficult for bots, Google is experimenting with using street-number images from Street View to strengthen its reCAPTCHA ...

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 ...

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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Researchers have created new artificial intelligence that could spell the end for one of the most widely used website security systems. The new algorithm, based on deep learning methods, is the most ...

Just one day after the photo sharing application announced its latest security measure, a researcher claimed he was able to hack it with as little as 100 lines of C++ code. It was only going to be a ...