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

CAPTCHAs are those now ubiquitous challenges you encounter to prove that you’re a human and not a bot when you go to log in to many websites. Websites and mobile apps have long been attacked by ...

Captchas persist partly because there haven’t been better options to stop fraud or automated software. Finally, though, there are more technologies coming to put Captchas on their deathbed ...

Captchas have gotten more complex out of necessity. Because as AI gets more sophisticated, they’ve become less effective. By now, some captchas have gotten a little surreal.

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

According to experts, newer captchas collect a lot of data about the users who solve them. In addition to your browser, captchas also know your IP address and even the VPN service you’re using.

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

A 2023 study concluded CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service' that made us spend 819 million hours clicking on traffic lights to generate nearly $1 ...

Why Captchas are getting harder to solve. If the process continues to get harder, it could cause problems for people trying to book tickets for popular shows. Newsletter sign up Newsletter; ...

A recent study found that not only are bots more accurate than humans in solving those infamous CAPTCHA tests designed to keep them out of websites, but they're faster, too.

Examples of the kind of CAPTCHAs that image-recognition bots can now get past 100 percent of the time. Credit: Arxiv, Plesner et al.