[pchelpers] Re: News:Spammers beat new Microsoft CAPTCHA defences

John Durham wrote:
> Compromised Microsoft accounts are very valuable to spammers, which
> means that theyʼll constantly try and break in using new techniques.
> 
> By Asavin Wattanajantra, 16 Feb 2009 at 15:54
> 
> 
> Security firm Websense has claimed that new CAPTCHA techniques reworked
> by Microsoft at the end of last year have already been busted by
> spammers.
> 
> CAPTCHA (Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers & Humans Apart)
> was developed in 2000 to stop spam robots. Websense said that recent
> Microsoft efforts to rework it and achieve a balance between security
> and usability had failed.
> 
> The problem was that every time Microsoft tried to implement CAPTCHA
> changes to prevent spammers from breaking in and getting control of
> accounts, the criminals managed to adapt and beat them.
> 
> More here:
> http://www.itpro.co.uk/609888/spammers-beat-new-microsoft-captcha-defences
An afterthought on this: What if the malicious software is identifying 
the captcha images on the website using a list of which ones contain 
which codes?

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