The McAfee Computer Security Research blog has an interesting article on how malicious web sites can defeat the “captcha” codes that appear on many sites. The “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” or CAPTCHA are the challenge-response mechanisms that display distorted text or numbers that can be read by humans but not [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Microsoft released their third edition of the Security Intelligence Report last month which summarises the findings of their Malicious Software Removal tool, Windows Defender and OneCare service. This edition reports on the software vulnerabilities, exploits and malicious software discovered between January and June 2007. During this period the report claims that over 3,400 new vulnerabilities [...]
