New attack could make website security captchas obsolete
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 - 15:50
in Mathematics & Economics
Researchers have created new artificial intelligence that could spell the end for one of the most widely used website security systems. The new algorithm, based on deep learning methods, is the most effective solver of captcha security and authentication systems to date and is able to defeat versions of text captcha schemes used to defend the majority of the world's most popular websites.