Someone got around Microsoft's Bing Chat CAPTCHA security block over the weekend by framing a request to unlock the text message as a translation for a fake dead grandmother's locket.
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Microsoft is planning to add on-device encryption that will encrypt passwords locally before saving as well as auto verification of CAPTCHA to verify you as a real human on websites.
Cloudflare has announced the open beta of Turnstile, an invisible alternative to CAPTCHAs. It uses browser telemetry to determine if a website visitor is legitimate, rather than annoying puzzles.
Cloudflare has announced Private Access Tokens, a way for people to avoid completing CAPTCHAs. Apple will add support for PATs in iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS 13 which are due in the fall.
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A new Ursnif 2021 variant, which is a known banking trojan, is infecting victim machines by disguising itself as a reCAPTCHA test, which leads the victim to unknowingly download the malware.
Cloudflare says humans waste about 32 seconds per instance totalling 500 years per day on CAPTCHAs. The company is launching an experiment to get rid of CAPTCHAs completely and end this "madness".
Google has released the Android API of its reCAPTCHA technology, so developers can implement security services for users on mobile devices, and provide them with a streamlined user experience.
It appears that Google is finally killing off CAPTCHA in text and the checkbox saying "I'm not a robot" for legitimate users, instead using "a broad range of cues that distinguish humans from bots".
Google researchers have found that Google Street View technology paired with a new algorithm can solve CAPTCHAs with ease.
Your favourite band is touring and you know tickets will sell out in an instant, so every second counts. But there is only one thing in the way, and it threatens to make your life miserable.
A Stanford research group has shown that Captchas aren't really that great at differentiating between human and computer. However, many websites aren't very worried.
