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 ...

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 ...

While puzzling captchas—from dogs in hats to sliding jockstraps—still exist, most bot-deterring challenges have vanished into ...

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 ...

The slur was flagged by Twitter user @DanieEve, who tweeted a photo of the CAPTCHA code, which is used to determine whether a human or a bot is entering information on the site. @DanieEve tagged the ...

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 ...

All: In a further effort to deter spam, Roanoke.com has added a "captcha" code bar for readers to type in before they enter a comment. We hope these human-readable images will thwart the loathsome ...

The “CAPTCHA” has infuriated web users for years: It's that login test that asks you to type in a hard-to-read sequence of letters or numbers in order to prove are not a robot. Get one letter wrong ...

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 ...