Re: Scam Uses Striptease To Break CAPTCHAs

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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- -- "Young, Keith" <Keith.Young () montgomerycountymd gov> wrote:

> 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*

If you're curious, they never actually get completely naked. ;-)

- - ferg

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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