Gone in 60 seconds: Spambot cracks Live Hotmail CAPTCHA

ronjor · Apr 15, 2008

Internet users are quite familiar with the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA), a quick method that verifies whether or not the user trying to sign up is a person or a bot. A picture with swirled, mangled, or otherwise distorted characters is displayed and the user then types in the correct letters or numbers. Thus far, the system has worked well to slow down malicious bots, but recently the groups behind such software have made significant strides. A security firm is now reporting that the CAPTCHA used for Windows Live Mail can now be cracked in as little as 60 seconds.
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ccsito · Apr 15, 2008

For some reason, the news about CAPTCHA appears to be old news?

ccsito · Apr 16, 2008

Here is an interesting item to fight spam.

http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/

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