Captcha cracked
Posted on: Fri, 04/11/2008 - 08:04
abhinav42
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Captcha cracked
"Websense is reporting that Gmail's CAPTCHA has been broken, and that bots are beginning to sign up with a one in five success rate. More interestingly, they have a lot of technical details about how the botnet members coordinate with two different computers during the process. They believe that the second host is either trying to learn to crack the CAPTCHA or that it's a quality check of some sort. Curiously, the bots pretend to read the help information while breaking the CAPTCHA, probably to prevent Google from giving them a timeout message."
These are not good news. You can never feel secure - google as well. Seems to be captcha is becoming obsolete method. Whats next - video captcha :)
yes, this is quite serious and some more secure steps should b taken to increase security and secure login.