Security researchers defeat reCAPTCHA

Security researchers defeat reCAPTCHA

abril 7, 2016 | NSFOCUS

SC Magazine

A trio of security researchers has demonstrated how Google’s reCAPTCHA technology can be broken. The technology is used by Google, Facebook and others to protect websites against spam and abuse. According to a research paper, the researchers managed to identify flaws in the technology that would enable hackers to influence the risk analysis, bypass restrictions, and deploy large-scale attacks. Alex Cruz Farmer, our VP of Cloud said that t hackers being able to bypass reCAPTCHA now creates a very critical issue as a line of defence against automated SQL injection attacks. To read the full article, please click here.

 

photo