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10 April 2008

First Google, now Hotmail


According to a blog entry posted recently by Websense, it looks like spammers have found a way to break the Hotmail email account signup CAPTCHA. 

Ever since the story broke in late February about Gmail's CAPTCHA technology being broken, we've been seeing large numbers of both spam and backscatter (at the rate of about 40-50% of all mail traffic) from Google's mail servers.  This has also caused some of Google's servers to trigger our automated blocks on an occasional basis.  It looks like other anti-spam vendors have followed suit in this approach as well.
  It looks like Hotmail will soon be in that same boat unless they can figure out a new system and get the spam accounts shut down.

Posted by smasiello at 1:58 PM | Link | 2 comments
Re: First Google, now Hotmail
Posted by momo9494 on May 7, 2008 at 8:05 AM

Re: First Google, now Hotmail
Posted by momo9494 on May 7, 2008 at 8:08 AM

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