Bots are better and faster than humans at online CAPTCHA tests designed to keep them out of websites. The finding calls into question whether we should continue using these kind of security measures, ...

Bots backed by tens of thousands of lines of code are increasingly good at acting like humans. That has some cybersecurity experts saying tools like CAPTCHA, designed to make humans prove they are not ...

The cyber-underground menu of criminal services now includes on-demand, human-assisted CAPTCHA-breaking functionality, researchers are warning — meaning that website admins should look to implement ...

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We've all been there: You click on a website and are immediately directed to respond to a series of puzzles requiring you to identify images of buses, bicycles and traffic lights before you can go any ...

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 Although not yet peer-reviewed, the results of a new study ...

Have you ever been left confused by the mutated text that often appears when trying to make an online purchase, asking you to prove you're not a robot? Or gotten a headache from squinting at your ...