Google takes CAPTCHA security to the streets

An experiment with digital images from Street View aims to stymie CAPTCHA-resistant bots Follow @tsamson_IW In a move that could make CAPTCHA challenges a bit easier for humans and more difficult for bots, Google is experimenting with using street-number images from Street View to strengthen its reCAPTCHA authentication technology. Traditionally,…

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Microsoft Takes Out Zeus

March 23, 2012: Digital forensic examiner Ashim Kapur disables a computer running the Zeus botnet in Scranton, PA. Microsoft/YouTube View full post on computer forensic – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security

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Mulcair closer to NDP crown; takes 3rd NDP ballot

TORONTO New Democrats opted Saturday for a rhetorical spear carrier over an ideological puritan by selecting mercurial Thomas Mulcair to carry the official Opposition into electoral battle against Stephen Harper’s Conservatives. Mulcair, a combative former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister, won the NDP leadership on a fourth ballot, besting longtime party…

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Government Takes on Anonymous

Top U.S. officials are meeting with senators in a closed-door meeting Wednesday evening to push for tougher cyber-security measures to protect the nation's water, electrical, and telecommunications grid…… View full post on obama hacking government – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security

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Hacker group Anonymous takes down Vatican website

ROME — The Vatican website was back online by 3:00am Thursday local time after hacking group Anonymous took down the site Wednesday. Anonymous said it was targeting the “corrupt” Catholic Church, a day after a high-profile bust of the group’s alleged leaders, AFP reported. “Anonymous decided today to besiege your…

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Cisco takes first step in realising SecureX vision

A year Cisco put forward its vision called SecureX about how it would devise ways that its network products, first its firewalls, would be able to capture information related to user devices, especially tablets and smartphones, to exert context-based security control. Today, Cisco took the first step to deliver on…

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