Hacked CAPTCHA may lead to spam surge
Email, Risk Management No Comments »There have been reports over the last few weeks that CAPTCHA the popular tool used by many websites to thwart spammers is being attacked. CAPTCHA is the hard to read squiggly text that users are asked to decipher in an effort to tell real human users apart from automated bots. Free email services such as Gmail, Yahoo or Live Mail all use some form of CAPTCHA to prevent spammers from utilizing automated scripts to create large numbers of user accounts to be then used for spam-mail.
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