Captcha systems, those psychedelic-font phrases designed to weed out bots from users, are a staple of website security. And, thanks to Stanford Researchers, they may be quickly becoming completely useless. More »
Is it just me or have Captchas gotten insanely freaking impossible these days? I mean, I can’t even make out if I’m supposed to type in a letter, a number or a hieroglyphic. Annoying! We need a new Captcha method. What about drawing a shape? More »
Stanford Security Laboratory’s computer scientists have discovered how to crack audio captchas, using software that can listen in and correctly output the string of random letters and numbers websites use to test whether you’re human, or a malicious bot. More »
Scientists at Max-Planck-Institute for Physics of Complex Systems recently published a paper describing a two-part method to improve password security. More »
To contact Guy Abbott, owner of the web site Geee, one must simply learn to paint like Claude Monet. No big deal. [Geee via Geektoplasm via Neatorama] More »
newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11832548&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1","customParams":[] ,"width":500,"height":375,"ratio":0.75,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"vimeo"} ); I don’t know what prompted Aram Bartholl to stick CAPTCHA codes in public places, but I like to imagine him announcing that you may not continue walking down a sidewalk before reading an alphanumeric sequence out loud. More »
Spam bots deserve every nightmare. Jeffrey Augustine’s Dream Captcha updates a familiar faux-cultural symbol with the security layer consumers expect from their nocturnal hallucination protection device. [Jeffrey Augustine via Neat-o-Rama]
Cracking Yahoo’s CAPTCHA human verification may have been a major security-breach milestone, but now bots have been tag-teaming in pairs to crack Google’s Gmail human test too, which they currently can pull off one in five attempts. During the crack, they also appear, somewhat snarkily, to read Google’s help pages, perhaps as a means of preventing a timeout. [Slashdot]
