Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) Google is expanding the availability of reCAPTCHA, and the verification technology will now be able to, for the first time, protect payments. Jess Leroy, Google senior ...

Google’s purchase of reCAPTCHA is hailed as win-win for users and the search giant. Not so much for critics of the search giant’s controversial book scanning project, which the purchase bolsters. In ...

Absorbing reCAPTCHA, the word-verification Internet security organization, was a natural progression for the Google Book Project. The CATPCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers ...

In the fall of 2018, Google released a new version of reCaptcha, the company’s widely used bot detector. reCaptcha v3, as its called, is great at detecting bots but it has a dark side, as researchers ...

Google’s reCaptcha service has been cracked by researchers who devised an automated attack called unCaptcha that can break the service with 85 percent accuracy. Google’s reCaptcha service has been ...

Thanks to the wonderful world of spammers most websites these days rely on CAPTCHA images to force users to prove they are human before accepting comments or other user feedback. In fact humans solve ...

Captchas are well known for keeping automated spammers out and letting humans in. However, ReCaptcha is a rather clever service using them to help digitize books scanned into the Internet Archive as ...