April 16, 2008
CAPTCHA cracked in sixty seconds
By now we have all got used to the sign up feature that is supposed determine between a human and a machine, the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) where there is a series of letters and numbers which are sometimes distorted.
Most of time this has proved a [...]
December 13, 2007Spam still dominates email
There was a time when spam as we have come to know it, was only taking up about 5% of all emails, mind you that was back in 2001! Since then the amount of spam has steadily taken giant steps, in 2004 the figure was up to 70% which was when everyone started to moan [...]