Spammers have cracked Microsoft Corp. ‘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 ...

A new bot can crack defenses erected by Microsoft Corp. to keep spammers from creating large numbers of accounts on its Live Hotmail service within seconds, a security researcher said today. Dan ...

Seeing as the CAPTCHA tests aim to tell computers apart from humans, the name basically means “automatic bot detector”. That ...

As shown in court documents, this is the 1stCAPTCHA site where Microsoft says the defendants sold CAPTCHA-solving tokens obtained by a fleet of bots. This is one of the domains seized by the company ...

Digital proof of personhood offers a path out of the arms race between bots and CAPTCHAs, argues Daniel Brunsdon of ...

A recent study has found that robots have a higher success rate in solving so-called CAPTCHA tests than human beings. CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has reportedly demonstrated its superiority over humans when it comes to solving online CAPTCHA tests designed to differentiate between human users and automated bots. Can ...

A new report hinted at bots’ increasing prowess at solving modern and advanced CAPTCHAs prompting Elon Musk to give a shout-out to Twitter, now rebranded as X’s paid subscription service. What ...

The future of fraud protection will be measured not just by how well it stops attacks but by how little it disrupts progress.

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 Although not yet peer-reviewed, the results of a new study ...

How do you let people create user accounts or post comments on your Web site without letting spam bots in? Simple — make your users prove they’re human. Many Web sites use CAPTCHA (Completely ...

DataDome is featured as a Sample Vendor of Bot Management in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Application Security, 2025.