Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

Advanced AI can defeat CAPTCHAs designed to prove web actions are being performed by humans instead of machines, new research indicates. "Current AI technologies can exploit advanced image-based ...

A new login authentication approach could improve the security of current biometric techniques that rely on video or images of users' faces. Known as Real-Time Captcha, the technique uses a unique ...

Any research is prone to irrelevance if it starts with the wrong research questions, takes the wrong perspective, or in this case, attempts to fight the wrong enemy - automated bots attempting to ...

Thanks to the wonderful world of spammers most websites these days rely on CAPTCHA images to force users to prove they are human before accepting comments or other user feedback. In fact humans solve ...

If AI is meant to be so intelligent, why can’t it identify a set of traffic lights? Well… it can. Artificial intelligence (AI) is so powerful today that most CAPTCHA images can be easily solved. A ...

After the German Federal Office for Information Security warned about fake captchas on Mastodon, these annoying things are a hot topic everywhere. Everyone has already come into contact with various ...

Proton, the Swiss company that develops privacy-focused online services such as email, has developed its very own CAPTCHA service to help discern between genuine login attempts and bots — and it touts ...

Captcha has evolved from identifying mangled letters to web users unwittingly training Google’s AI. Now, finally, you won’t have to do anything The experience of squinting at distorted text, puzzling ...

It’s not as if it hasn’t been done before, but researchers at Stanford quantified ways to crack the CAPTCHA test many web sites use to make users prove they’re human, and recommended ways to make sure ...