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US company invents 'Turing test' to beat bots
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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 03:39:57 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=116903 By Jeremy Kirk IDG News Service 03 June 2009 A US security company has come up with a technology it says can block automated programs responsible for perpetuating nuisances such as spam, fake email registrations and click fraud. The software, HumanPresent, essentially ferrets out, for example, whether a human is filling out a web-based form and stopping those actions that appear to come from automated programs, said Sanjay Sehgal, CEO of Pramana. Next month, Pramana expects to fully launch both a SaaS (software-as-a-service) offering and an appliance that monitor web applications for intrusions by bots, Sehgal said. Pramana's software can be applied to web-based forms, whether they be email registrations, e-commerce transactions or detecting click fraud related to banner advertising. [...] _____________________________________________ Visit the InfoSec News security bookstore! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org
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