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CAPTHA’s are broken?
Well I have been reading up on CAPTCHA’s (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart). They are the images that contain letters and numbers that you have to enter before you can post a comment or sign up to a service to stop automated bots from aggregating thousands of accounts that could be used to SPAM you and download Malware onto your computer.
It does not look good I am afraid. Check out the following links:
- Spammer Multi-vector: Email, Web, and Web 2.0 Blended Attacks
- Inside India’s CAPTCHA solving economy
- Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail’s CAPTCHA broken by spammers
- Spammers and Phishers Breaking CAPTCHAs
Hope you enjoy reading the articles. What are your thoughts?
Category: Computers
Tags: Computer Security, Phishing, Scams
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Email is back!
Yesterday, I posted a very brief message stating that I could not access my email account.
I was really stressed out because I use it for everything and I would lose a lot of important emails if it did now work again.
Happily, it is working today! Yeay!
I contacted the provider, Microsoft, and they got back to me really quickly and were very kind.
I think they performed a server migration and were moving accounts over!
It is all sorted now! Thank you Microsoft! You guys are awesome.
Now just have to wait for the Unix/Linux/Mac fanboys to start ranting!
Sorry guys, but I will not approve your comments if you start ranting on here.
Category: Computers
Tags: Computers, Email, Servers
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Where are you emails?
I can not access my email account! Arghh!