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Officials with the Georgia Department of Public Health and Microsoft are investigating why a security code that generated on the state website revealed a racial slur for a user. Georgia DPH officials ...

NuCaptcha has been around for a few years, offering a unique portal for advertisers: A tiny pop-up movie that gets displayed when a user needs to type in a Captcha code to a website to verify their ...

A racial slur that appeared in the CAPTCHA code on a Georgia Department of Public Health website has sparked an investigation by officials and Microsoft. The slur was flagged by Twitter user @DanieEve ...

A new phishing campaign has been observed in the wild using captcha boxes to hide a fake Microsoft account login page from secure email gateways (SEGs). Businesses use SEGs to protect against a wide ...

We see the popular "captcha" security mechanism often - wavy letters websites ask us to type into a box. It's used by web pages and newsletter sign-up forms to prevent computer robots from hacking ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, Jan. 28, 2025: This story, originally published Jan.

An “offensive” security code that appeared on a state website used to schedule COVID-19 tests was an error, the Georgia Department of Public Health says. The issue was made public Wednesday after an ...

Officials with the Georgia Department of Public Health and Microsoft are investigating why a security code that generated on the state website revealed a racial slur for a user. Georgia DPH officials ...