Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, Jan. 28, 2025: This story, originally published Jan.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Researchers working at the Netskope Threat Labs have observed ...

You're probably familiar with the "I am not a robot" checkbox often seen when logging into a website. This security measure, a common CAPTCHA method, is one of several techniques used to distinguish ...

The malicious CAPTCHA test takes the same approach, but asks the user to go to their keyboard, and perform some commands. The instructions may look benign and simple, but in reality the CAPTCHA test ...

There’s something mildly dispiriting about being asked to identify blurry fire hydrants, distorted crosswalks, virtually unidentifiable parking meters, and bent traffic lights arranged to look nothing ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Amanda Fennell, a cybersecurity expert, about CAPTCHA tests that verify if a website visitor is human or bot. They... It's not your imagination. CAPTCHA tests are getting ...

Normally, CAPTCHA tests are designed to deter web-scraping bots by asking online visitors to complete a challenge, like identifying objects in an image. But in this case, the malicious CAPTCHA test ...

The big picture: Captcha tests, which require users to click on grids of images to verify they are human, are among the most annoying things on the internet. Nevertheless, most users accept that they ...