Two CAPTCHA Cracks, One Month
CAPTCHA, the technology that prevents/limits spammers from growing their network of free throw-away Spam accounts, known as “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”, has been successfully cracked against Google’s Gmail registration system. CAPTCHAs have been known to be near impossible to crack against due to the varying characteristics in the images displayed, yet this now makes the second compromise in the technology in about one month. More »