{"67854":{"#nid":"67854","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CAPTCHAs Don\u0027t Work Anymore","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a blog post last month, Distinguished Professor and Dean ofComputing Richard DeMillo described CAPTCHAs, the distorted text usedas a security test to thwart Spammers and other Web site abuse, as \u0026quot;aleaking levee facing a hundred-year storm.\u0026quot;  Now ABC News reports thatSpam originating from Google\u0027s Gmail domain doubled last month,indicating that spammers are still defeating the CAPTCHA (CompletelyAutomated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart).\u0026quot;Internet security in general is a cat and mouse game, with securitysystems and professionals trying to stay a step ahead of the blackhats. But staying ahead with CAPTCHAs is tricky and may be impossible,\u0026quot;DeMillo said. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022\/\/www.virtualblight.com\/articles\/?p=20\u0026quot;\u0022\u003ERead Rich DeMillo\u0027s full discussion on CAPTCHA here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/PCWorld\/story?id=4421745\u0026quot;\u0022\u003ERead the ABC News item \u0026quot;Crafty Spam Outsmarts Gmail\u0027s Filters\u0026quot; here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a blog post last month, Distinguished Professor and Dean of Computing Richard DeMillo described CAPTCHAs, the distorted text used as a security test to thwart Spammers and other Web site abuse, as \u0026quot;a leaking levee facing a hundred-year storm.\u0026quot;  Now ABC News reports that Spam originating from Google\u0027s Gmail domain doubled last month, indicating that spammers are still defeating the CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart).  Source: Virtual Blight\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2011-06-20 17:11:49","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:59","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-03-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-03-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}