Google’s purchase of reCAPTCHA is hailed as win-win for users and the search giant. Not so much for critics of the search giant’s controversial book scanning project, which the purchase bolsters. In ...

Absorbing reCAPTCHA, the word-verification Internet security organization, was a natural progression for the Google Book Project. The CATPCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers ...

If you’ve signed up for any new web services in the past few years, you’ve probably encountered a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) or two. A CAPTCHA ...

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If you’ve ever submitted a form on the internet (and who hasn’t?), chances are you’ve had to transcribe a series of blurry letters and digits to a blank box. It’s a form of challenge-response testing ...

The move gives Google at first a reliable Web fraud prevention tool. ReCAPTCHA's technology asks users to identify squiggly letter images a computer would have trouble interpreting, thus increasing ...

An exploit for the bypass vulnerability required an HTTP parameter pollution in a web application. Google has fixed a bypass for its reCAPTCHA authentication mechanism – the Turing test-based ...

ReCAPTCHA is a free offering from Google to protect webmasters against robots and bots designed to propagate spam and abuse online services. Based on the Turing Test, reCAPTCHA uses puzzles or logic ...