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Scam Uses Striptease To Break CAPTCHAs
From: "Young, Keith" <Keith.Young () montgomerycountymd gov>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:30:37 -0400
http://www.enterprise-security-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=56423 <snip> Trend Micro researchers say the scam appears to be isolated for now to spammers trying to register bogus e-mail addresses and flood chat rooms with unwanted pitches. But they worry schemes to infiltrate financial institutions could soon appear. Spammers might be using the results to write a program to automatically bypass CAPTCHA systems. </snip> Fergie, any samples that you want to share? *smile* --Keith Keith Young, Security Official Department of Technology Services Montgomery County, Maryland phone - (240) 777-2955 _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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