A new study suggested that text-based CAPTCHAs, one of the most widely used website security mechanisms, are no longer safe when facing smarter artificial intelligence. Text-based CAPTCHA uses a ...

One of the most frustrating things you’ll encounter on the modern web are those boxes of squiggly, distorted text you are suppose to decipher to prove you aren’t a spam bot signing up for an email ...

Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing Chat can be tricked into solving anti-bot CAPTCHA tests with nothing more than simple lies and some rudimentary photo editing. Tests designed to be easy for humans to pass, ...

Just about any time you sign up for an online account, you have to prove that you're a human by reading and entering some messed-up text that supposedly couldn't be decoded by a computer. Why? Well, ...