clipcaptcha is an extensible and signature based CAPTCHA Provider impersonation tool based off Moxie Marlinspike’s sslstrip codebase, which we mentioned back in 2009 – SSLstrip – HTTPS Stripping Attack Tool. Depending on its mode of operation it may approve, reject or forward the CAPTCHA verification requests. It maintains an easy to edit XML configuration file […]
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13 Out Of 15 Popular CAPTCHA Schemes Vulnerable To Automated Attacks
This is not a real shock to be if I’m perfectly honestly, I only use reCAPTCHA whenever I need a CAPTCHA implementation for anything. And well even then, it’s not totally safe as apparently you can farm out your CAPTCHA cracking (those the fail the automated attempts) to India for a few dollars. It does […]
High Tech Ticket Scalpers Earn $25 Million Profits
[ad] Today’s news is that a company in the US has been using CAPTCHA breaking technology to run a very profitable ticket scalping operation. Reports state they netted a $25 Million USD profit over a 6 year period, which is an industry is extremely lucrative especially for a reasonably small operation. Of course they way […]
Spammers Harnessing Web Mail Servers – Gmail & Yahoo! Throttled
[ad] It seems like spammers are now moving to automated spam via popular web mail services as a way to bypass IP-blacklisting services. It’s a large advantage for them as they can still use botnet sources to generate the e-mail but the source IP address will be from a ‘trusted’ domain such as Gmail or […]
Link & Comment Spamming – A possible solution.
[ad] Recently one of the sites I am developing for my self was link spammed. Some unpleasant individual decided that it would be fun to post 160 ‘comments’ spread over all the blog posts. All the comments contained was URL’s. Even more stupid they used BB tags, but as I wrote the site it doesn’t […]