Day: November 20, 2019

Exploiting CAPTCHA: The Latest Evasive Phishing Tactic

The Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) has been used in commercial applications since the early 2000s. As its name suggests, it is a mechanism for ascertaining that a real human is performing an action at a web site. CAPTCHA is generated by distorting