A couple of students at the School of Computing Science, in Newcastle, England, have gotten a success rate of 92% on attacking the CAPTCHA validations for such sites as Hotmail and Windows Live.
In a recently published paper they describe how it was done, and explain how text based CAPTCHA will not be hard to break […]
Christopher Tarnovsky has led a wild existence in the last few years. At thirty-seven, he seems to be the pre-eminent cracker of existing smart card technology.
In an amazing tale told to Wired, Mr. Tarnovsky outlines exactly how being given a satellite dish and a couple of non-working smart cards, while in Europe working […]
After reading his latest installment over at ComputerWorld, I can’t help but feel that this is one of those guys who wakes up each morning with a thought, put there by God, in his sleep. Sort of a modern day Moses, with the burning bush appearing in his dreams, so as to be less conspicuous, […]
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