Vacation scams are nothing new. Travel can be expensive and people are looking to grab the best prices they can get, says ...

CAPTCHAs are the most recognizable anti-bot mechanism on the web. Whether you're logging into a game, signing up for a new ...

In this paper, we consider a novel method of mining biometric data for user authentication by replacing traditional captchas with game-like captchas. The game-like captchas present the user with a ...

A new ClickFix campaign targets macOS users with fake Spectrum support sites, tricking victims with CAPTCHA failures to paste ...

Text-based CAPTCHA is widely used in fields such as user identity verification during human-computer interaction in real scenarios. With the development of artificial intelligence, several ...

Just because CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA tests are ubiquitous doesn't mean they're always innocuous. Internet users are accustomed to engaging with CAPTCHA without much thought, so naturally ...

Every time there's a Hacker News thread about bots, bot detection, or CAPTCHAs, a familiar complaint shows up: people using VPNs, ad blockers, Firefox forks, or privacy tools get bombarded with ...

This seems to mainly impact users who use Apple's Safari browser on the Mac, which uses iCloud Private Relay by default when activated. iPhone users are less likely to fall into the trap. There is ...

Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platforms by leveraging the same malicious ...

“As Los Pollos push monetization ended, we’ve seen an increase in fake CAPTCHAs that drive user acceptance of push notifications, particularly from Partners House,” the Infoblox report reads.