Captcha developer Luis von Ahn has received the Grace Murray Hopper Award for 2011. It is an annual award named after the Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, is given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 1971 to young computer professionals who have made outstanding contributions to computer science.
Luis von Ahn, an associate professor [...]
It was a matter of time until Pinterest, an online board pinning community and a rising social media star, will start tightening the rope against spammers, using captcha, among other measures.
“As Pinterest grows, spammers have also grown within our community.” Said a recent Pinterest blogpost that encouraged users to, well, tell on suspicious users, “While [...]
If you use Google products, you have probably run into a different type of captcha images. Recently, next to the familiar distorted text images that look suspiciously like photographs of street addresses started to appear.
Apparently, Google is running a reCaptcha experiment in which they are trying to decipher blurry street addresses from Google Street View [...]
Facebook, being the most popular social network online, naturally draws spammers. Recently a Facebook scam took advantage of the captcha page that pops whenever a Facebook user clicks on a link on Facebook. That is when filling a captcha on Facebook you should think for a minute whether you are following the right path or [...]
As we’ve seen before, there all kinds of different CAPTCHAs going around the web. Funny CAPTCHA, weird, odd and interesting CAPTCHAs are all around.
Now there’s another type of CAPTCHA: A mind breaking one.
According to LA Times the best defense against spammers and bots is a (extremely hard) math CAPTCHA. The website of the Croatian Ruđer [...]
While there’s no room for doubt regarding the importance of CAPTCHAs for webmasters and blog owners nowadays, there are some complaints about how hard they become, sometimes impossible. Meaningless words or deformed letters that mash together to create… who knows?
Text CAPTCHAs are sometimes unsolvable, annoying or just a pain in the, well, eye. When all [...]
CAPTCHAs as we know them are mostly a text based tool. You get some distorted words, letters or numbers, and you retype them in order to prove you’re human and not a spam bot.
But is the era of text based CAPTCHA coming to an end?
According to David Bradley of sceincetext.com, it is indeed a possibility. [...]
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D-Link Systems has announced that it will incorporate DNS security extensions (DNSSEC) to routers in order to defend home computers against malicious web attack. This technology will be integrated with D-Link’s already implemented CAPTCHA technology and updated IPv6 certification in order to provide increased security.
The extra layer of security provided by DNSSEC is expected to [...]