However, Prasad was able to pull apart the CAPTCHA bot’s code and uncover how the instructions are passed between the individual bots and the central command-and-control server.

A security researcher said spammers are using a bot to sidestep barriers that Microsoft has erected to keep scammers from creating massive numbers of accounts on its Live Mail service.

When using services on the Internet, you may be required to take a test called ' CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart)' to prove that you are not a ...

In a long post to the Websense blog yesterday, Sumeet Prasad — “our CAPTCHA expert,” said Hubbard — provided technical details of how the bot automatically registers Live Hotmail accounts ...

A new bot can crack defenses erected by Microsoft to keep spammers from creating large numbers of accounts on its Live Hotmail service within seconds, a security researcher said Friday.