http://www.botproof.com/wordpress Think outside the bots. Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:13:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en E-mail spammers make their money by leveraging the scale of the Internet: by sending out as many spam e-mails as possible, via as many e-mail accounts as possible.  Eventually enough unsuspecting people will respond to the spam to make the whole endeavor profitable. Owners of free e-mail account services really do ... http://www.botproof.com/wordpress/?p=60 In a blog post by Pollstar, an interesting legal conjecture was made based upon the indictment of the Wiseguys who hacked reCAPTCHA's CAPTCHA (see earlier news coverage).  Namely, that there wasn't really a crime committed so much as an exploitation of technology to gain a business advantage.  I.e., Wiseguys merely ... http://www.botproof.com/wordpress/?p=58 I don't, in my wildest dreams, beleive we'll ever find the most definative example of the "worst CAPTCHA ever" -- there are just too many to choose from(!).  But I've got to believe this has to be considered a candidate: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="The Worst CAPTCHA Ever?"][/caption] What's worse, it came ... http://www.botproof.com/wordpress/?p=55 Earlier last month, Forbes.com posted an article describing yet more fraudulent attacks on display ads by bots.  This variant on click-fraud masks itself as human activity by only clicking on ads based on where the user has already been.  For instance, the bot tracks which websites you visit, and then ... http://www.botproof.com/wordpress/?p=48 Today is a great day at BotProof: after months of planning and tremendous effort, we have re-launched our website!  We've focused our branding and products on CAPTCHA 2.0 with AdEmbed, making the site easier for publishers to sign up for the world's best CAPTCHA (if we do say so ourselves!) ... http://www.botproof.com/wordpress/?p=45 Our competitors' CAPTCHAs, of which reCAPTCHA is probably the best known, are all static.  That is, in comparison to our own animated CAPTCHAs, the codes you see do not move.  And therein lies their weakness. Bots use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to defeat CAPTCHAs.  Our competitors fight this by distorting their CAPTCHAs, making ... http://www.botproof.com/wordpress/?p=35 'Tis the season for giving.  And in the true spirit of Internet companies, we here at BotProof found a way to scale our contributions to our communities. In conjunction with a newly formed partnership with the Community Foundation of Utah (mission: "to harness Utah’s entrepreneurial spirit in service to the common good ... http://www.botproof.com/wordpress/?p=39 Welcome to our blog!  We have started the blog in conjunction with re-launching our website, and have created it as a resource for both current and prospective users of our technology.  We believe we have the best CAPTCHAs on the market, and will use this space for several purposes: on-going education ... http://www.botproof.com/wordpress/?p=30