Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

Any research is prone to irrelevance if it starts with the wrong research questions, takes the wrong perspective, or in this case, attempts to fight the wrong enemy - automated bots attempting to ...

Thanks to the wonderful world of spammers most websites these days rely on CAPTCHA images to force users to prove they are human before accepting comments or other user feedback. In fact humans solve ...

A new login authentication approach could improve the security of current biometric techniques that rely on video or images of users' faces. Known as Real-Time Captcha, the technique uses a unique ...

Bots account for nearly half of global internet traffic, increasing the need for online security. Whether browsing on an ...

Advanced AI can defeat CAPTCHAs designed to prove web actions are being performed by humans instead of machines, new research indicates. "Current AI technologies can exploit advanced image-based ...

Bing Chat is a chatbot AI provided by Microsoft that allows users to upload images for searching and discussion. Bing Chat is set up so that it does not solve the CAPTCHA problem, which is an image ...

A research project at Tel Aviv University is tackling the problem of making Captcha more secure. Captcha is an open source program created by a team from Carnegie Mellon University. It consists of a ...

How do you let people create user accounts or post comments on your Web site without letting spam bots in? Simple — make your users prove they’re human. Many Web sites use CAPTCHA (Completely ...

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 ...