Spammers have cracked Microsoft Corp.‘s latest defense against abuse of its Live Hotmail e-mail service using a sophisticated network of hacked computers that receive encrypted instructions from a ...

Seeing as the CAPTCHA tests aim to tell computers apart from humans, the name basically means “automatic bot detector”. That ...

Researchers have managed to trick ChatGPT into solving CAPTCHAs in Agent mode, which could mean a deluge of fake posts is about to arrive.

It was a case of advanced Chat-fishing. The digital deception came to light after the AI was unveiled on their site and in a developer livestream with 2.3 million views in 48 hours. According to their ...

OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent has raised eyebrows after successfully bypassing one of the internet’s most common bot-blocking tools - Cloudflare’s “I am not a robot” CAPTCHA. The autonomous AI, designed ...

Why it matters: The usefulness of Captcha tests depends on their ability to deter bots without significantly inconveniencing human users. Although not yet peer-reviewed, the results of a new study ...

A new report hinted at bots’ increasing prowess at solving modern and advanced CAPTCHAs prompting Elon Musk to give a shout-out to Twitter, now rebranded as X’s paid subscription service. What ...

As someone who has worked in cybersecurity for years, it’s been fascinating to watch the evolution of CAPTCHA. Whilst you’re probably familiar with the acronym, you may not know that CAPTCHA stands ...

It’s a simple question — one that most of us regularly answer in the form of a CAPTCHA, a hacker-averting quiz that asks us to distinguish a squiggly “l” from an “S,” or perhaps select all of the ...

The comedian John Mulaney has a bit about the self-reflexive absurdity of captchas. “You spend most of your day telling a robot that you’re not a robot,” he says. “Think about that for two minutes and ...