reCAPTCHA is an important security feature designed by Google to help websites distinguish between humans and bots, protecting them from automated abuse. While reCAPTCHA serves a crucial purpose in ...

CAPTCHA-protected malicious URLs are snowballing lately, researchers said. Cyberattackers are using Google’s reCAPTCHA (aka the “I am not a robot” function) and fake CAPTCHA-like services to obscure ...

Why it matters: Captcha tests that require users to duplicate distorted text, solve puzzles, or click on grids of images to prove they aren't malicious bots have drawn scorn for years. Studies have ...

Why is CAPTCHA still a thing? Some websites require a response to verify human users and block automated bots. Completing these challenges often feels like a waste of time and money. Can’t current ...

Luis von Ahn, the co-founder of the popular language-learning platform Duolingo as well as the cyber-security system CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, is the recipient of the 2018 Lemelson-MIT prize, which ...