Tag Archives: CAPTCHA

A spammer’s worst enemy is an educated user. Here are five easy ways to make sure you’ll never be a spammer’s best friend: 1.  Don’t display your email address as plain text on your website. A contact form is best, since …

South Korea recently announced plans to fight the country’s growing spam problem by asking all ISPs to block all port 25 traffic - something that’s already done in Canada, many European countries, and by some ISPs here in the U.S. The reason blocking …

We’ve all seen them before, those annoying combinations of letters and numbers that you have to type before sending a form or registering for a website. That’s right, we are talking about CAPTCHA. CAPTCHA, or Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, is …

Spam is always in the news. Despite some reports that say overall levels are going down, spammers and their botnets are still hard at work filling inboxes and clogging social networks. Here’s a look at the latest spam news: New …

I usually enjoy reading John C. Dvorak’s rants on popular technology so when he took on challenge-response anti-spam solutions I knew that it would be another great read. Like Dvorak, I find the growing popularity of using a challenge-response solution …

Fed up with spam?  Or perhaps your CEO is, and has been pressing you to come up with some concrete plans in 2011 to reduce the amount of digital trash he has to wade through every morning.  Now, regular readers …

Despite denials from Google, a security researcher continues to assert that the Search King’s reCAPTCHA system for protecting Web sites from spammers can be successfully exploited by Internet junk mail panderers. Researcher Jonathan Wilkins published a paper recently that included …

As every spamfighter knows, junko artists are resilient. Almost as fast as new obstacles are thrown in their path, they cook up a way to counter them. CAPTCHA, for example, initially created an effective barrier to spambots, an automated means …

To curb the exploitation by spammers of webmail and the comment sections at websites, White Hats created an ingenious system called CAPTCHA–”Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.” The system is simple but effective. It displays …

A new company has unveiled its CAPTCHA replacement and says it believes it is a viable option. The platform, called TYPE-IN, uses ads instead of the random words and phrases that traditional CAPTCHA platforms use. In those platforms the words …