Traditional CAPTCHA is steadily losing favor on the Internet, proving continually frustrating to well-intentioned users and easily exploitable to malicious hackers and spammers. A startup called Are ...

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 ...

CAPTCHA programs that are used to determine whether a site visitor is a person or a bot come in pretty standard formats. Think text distortion (where users type the characters they see in a box amid ...

It’s not as if it hasn’t been done before, but researchers at Stanford quantified ways to crack the CAPTCHA test many web sites use to make users prove they’re human, and recommended ways to make sure ...