CAPTCHA security system from Yahoo hacked

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The CAPTCHA security system that Yahoo, and many other email service providers adopt to prevent spam, may not be secure, according to Russian security researchers. The researchers claim to have found a way in which the security system can be compromised. This would result in a huge increase in spam coming from yahoo and other email accounts.

Recognition rate at about 35 percent! enough to flood system

Read more HERE from TMC.net 

And also with Google GMail... bots are attacking and beginning to sign up with a one in five success rate, read more HERE

That will surely mean the death of securityimages very soon

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