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 ...

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 ...

When you log into your bank's website, you might be presented with an image showing distorted numbers and letters and asked ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

Google is making changes to its reCaptcha system: distorted text images are out, while numbers and more-adaptive, puzzle-based authentication checks are in. The change is necessary because text-only ...