The goal of the Turing test is for a human to work out whether they're communicating with another person or a machine. Computers have gotten better at imitating people but they've also improved at ...

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 are getting harder. Just sec here. I'm trying to prove ...

Overview:  As bots grow more sophisticated in 2025, CAPTCHA tools have shifted from puzzles to behavior-based verification that protects platforms without ...

CAPTCHAs are those now ubiquitous challenges you encounter to prove that you’re a human and not a bot when you go to log in to many websites. As a computer scientist, I see CAPTCHAs as an effective ...

If those bothersome CAPTCHA prompts online seem to be getting harder, it’s because they are. The pesky puzzles are used to ward off bots that crash sites or jeopardize security but now are becoming ...

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.

A team of researchers at the Universities of Arizona, Georgia, and South Florida, have developed a machine-learning-based CAPTCHA solver that they claim can overcome 94.4% of real challenges on dark ...

What looks like a simple "Are you human?" check is now one of the most dangerous tricks on the internet. Fake captchas have evolved into full-blown malware launchpads, thanks to a sneaky new method ...