Over the last decade, it has become well-established that a captcha’s ability to withstand automated solving lies in the difficulty of segmenting the image into individual characters. The standard approach to solving captchas automatically has been a sequential process wherein a segmentation algorithm splits the image into segments that contain individual characters, followed by a character rec...

We present a black-box attack against an already deployed CAPTCHA that aims to protect a free service delivered using the Internet. This CAPTCHA, referred to as ‘‘Math CAPTCHA’’ or ‘‘QRBGS CAPTCHA’’, requests the user to solve a mathematical problem in order to prove human. We study significant problems both in its design and its implementation, and how those flaws can be used to completely sol...

“CAPTCHA” stands for Completely Automated Public Turing Test[1] to Tell Computers and Humans Apart[2]. Due to exponential growth of internet, security of web application has become a vital issue and many web applications facing a threat of web bots also known as internet Robot is an automated script which executes over the web forms and occupy web spaces and thus increases network traffic. The ...

This paper studies the effect of individual differences on user performance related to text-recognition CAPTCHA challenges. In particular, a text-recognition CAPTCHA mechanism was deployed in a three-month user study to investigate the effect of individuals’ different cognitive processing abilities, targeting on speed of processing, controlled attention and working memory capacity toward effici...

CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” and has received much attention since it first began appearing on websites. It requires the deciphering of distorted texts, mostly in English which is something that computers still cannot do well. It is also helpful in preventing the abuse of online services. The current text-based CAPTCHA requires ...

CAPTCHA is now commonly used as standard security technology to tell computers and humans apart. The most widely deployed CAPTCHAs are text-based schemes. In this paper, we document how we have broken such a text-based scheme which uses the “connecting characters together (CCT)” principle. CAPTCHAs of this type can be classified into three types: CAPTCHA with overlap but no noise arcs; CAPTCHA ...

In this paper the elements of the CAPTCHA usability are analyzed. CAPTCHA, as a time progressive element in computer science, has been under constant interest of ordinary, professional as well as the scientific users of the Internet. The analysis is given based on the usability elements of CAPTCHA which are abbreviated as user-centric approach to the CAPTCHA. To demonstrate it, the specific typ...

The Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) is used to believe that a human is using the web service [1]. For the online services which are been provided in web services is been abused by automated bots over the internet. So CAPTCHA is used as a protection from these malicious programs for web security. But the bots are intelligent enough to break th...

Bots are programs that crawl through the web site and make auto registrations. CAPTCHAs, using Latin script, are widely used to prevent automated bots from abusing online services on the World Wide Web. However, many of the existing English based CAPTCHAs have some inherent problems and cannot assure the security of these websites. This paper proposes a method that focuses on the use of Arabic ...