Neowin News Feed for: Captcha

Microsoft is finally ditching annoying CAPTCHAs for Teams meetings

Paul Hill — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:20:02 +0000

Joining Microsoft Teams meetings is about to get a lot less frustrating. Discover how the new bot detection system replaces CAPTCHAs to improve accessibility and security. Read more...

A fake dead grandmother's locket was used to break Bing Chat's CAPTCHA filter

John Callaham — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 22:16:01 +0000

Someone got around Microsoft's Bing Chat CAPTCHA security block over the weekend by framing a request to unlock the text message as a translation for a fake dead grandmother's locket. Read more...

Microsoft Edge may soon get on-device encryption for passwords and auto-verify CAPTCHAs

Mehrotra A — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 04:12:02 +0000

Microsoft is planning to add on-device encryption that will encrypt passwords locally before saving as well as auto verification of CAPTCHA to verify you as a real human on websites. Read more...

Cloudflare announces invisible alternative to CAPTCHAs

Paul Hill — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 17:32:01 +0000

Cloudflare has announced the open beta of Turnstile, an invisible alternative to CAPTCHAs. It uses browser telemetry to determine if a website visitor is legitimate, rather than annoying puzzles. Read more...

Cloudflare announces Private Access Tokens - verification without CAPTCHAs

Paul Hill — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 22:30:01 +0000

Cloudflare has announced Private Access Tokens, a way for people to avoid completing CAPTCHAs. Apple will add support for PATs in iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS 13 which are due in the fall. Read more...

New Ursnif trojan variant uses sneaky CAPTCHA to fool victims and steal information

Sayan Sen — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 17:08:01 +0000

A new Ursnif 2021 variant, which is a known banking trojan, is infecting victim machines by disguising itself as a reCAPTCHA test, which leads the victim to unknowingly download the malware. Read more...

Cloudflare wants to save 500 years per day of humans trying to solve CAPTCHA by killing it

Subir Kathuria — Sat, 15 May 2021 16:50:01 +0000

Cloudflare says humans waste about 32 seconds per instance totalling 500 years per day on CAPTCHAs. The company is launching an experiment to get rid of CAPTCHAs completely and end this "madness". Read more...

Google releases reCAPTCHA API for Android devices

Muhammad Zaid Tariq — Sat, 10 Jun 2017 13:40:01 +0000

Google has released the Android API of its reCAPTCHA technology, so developers can implement security services for users on mobile devices, and provide them with a streamlined user experience. Read more...

Google kills off CAPTCHA, might determine if you're a robot by your browsing activities

Usama Jawad — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:36:01 +0000

It appears that Google is finally killing off CAPTCHA in text and the checkbox saying "I'm not a robot" for legitimate users, instead using "a broad range of cues that distinguish humans from bots". Read more...

New Google technology can decipher CAPTCHA

Brockman Davis — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 03:21:38 +0000

Google researchers have found that Google Street View technology paired with a new algorithm can solve CAPTCHAs with ease. Read more...

CAPTCHA technology could become a thing of the past

Phi Ha — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 11:29:54 +0000

Your favourite band is touring and you know tickets will sell out in an instant, so every second counts. But there is only one thing in the way, and it threatens to make your life miserable. Read more...

Captchas broken by Stanford Researchers

Tzvi Friedman — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:09:01 +0000

A Stanford research group has shown that Captchas aren't really that great at differentiating between human and computer. However, many websites aren't very worried. Read more...