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 ...

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

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 ...

Filling out CAPTCHAs to prove you're a human is one of the regular annoyances of the internet—but maybe it doesn't need to be. A new feature in the latest version of One UI 7 for Samsung devices ...

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.

819 million hours spent solving CAPTCHAs. $6.1 billion worth of our time at the US federal minimum wage. 134 Petabytes of internet bandwidth. consuming 7.5 million kWhs of energy.

There are fewer anger-inducing CAPTCHAs these days, such as dragging items to locations and listening to audio clips – we also saw a Doom minigame in 2021. Now, there's a new CAPTCHA version of ...

Google wanted CAPTCHAs to test whether users were human or bots to protect websites from spam and fraud — but with a twist. Google intended to substitute the original, deliberately distorted ...