Spambot cracks Live Hotmail CAPTCHA

Publican en Ars Technica, unha das millores páxinas sobre informática, que recentemente os “crackers” derrotaron ós CAPTCHA dos servizos de correo máis populares, sobre todo tendo en conta outra noticia sobre o CAPTCHA de Yahoo! Mail.

CAPTCHA son as siglas de Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, proba onde se lle pide ó usuario que identifique os caracteres nunha imaxe distorsionada para impedir que rexistren contas “usuarios non humanos”.

A noticia leva por título “Gone in 60 seconds: Spambot cracks Live Hotmail CAPTCHA”. Copio un extracto:

[...] A security firm is now reporting that the CAPTCHA used for Windows Live Mail can now be cracked in as little as 60 seconds.

Back in early February, a group cracked Windows Live Hotmail’s CAPTCHA. A few weeks later, Gmail’s version followed suit. In just over a month’s time, some anti-spam vendors were forced to completely block the domain for the popular service as bots signed up for thousands of bogus accounts and began to flood the tubes with e-mail advertisements for lottery tickets and watches. [...]