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Worm solves Gmail's CAPTCHA, creates fake accounts

A Vietnamese security company has detected a new worm that thwarts Google's security protections in order to register new dummy Gmail accounts.

| News | Security | 04/24/09 at 8:28 am |


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Google offers top tip to help beat bots

Google has put a new spin on the 'CAPTCHA' used to control access to Web sites: ask visitors to identify the tops of a series of randomly rotated images.

| News | Internet | Security | 04/17/09 at 11:01 am |


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Bot busts newest Hotmail CAPTCHA

Spammers have cracked Microsoft'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 central server, a security company has reported.

| News | Security | 02/18/09 at 4:36 pm |


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CAPTCHA Ready For Retirement?

Spammers are hitting Google’s Blogger service hard, using botnets to create hundreds of fake pages. The pages are full of spam ads, obviously, but some also redirect the viewer to a porn or other spam site.

| News | Security | 10/16/08 at 5:31 am |


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