Spammers overcome Hotmail and Yahoo CAPTCHA systems

By omarv

An interesting blog post that speculates that the Hotmail and Yahoo CAPTCHA systems have been compromised by spammers.Captcha
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2007/07/08/spammers-overcome-hotmail-and-yahoo-captcha-systems/

[Editor's Note (Valle): I'm sure the good guys are developing new CAPTCHA systems that can't be easily read by computers. In the meantime, we will all probably see a rise in spam.  The IronPort S series appliance with its SenderBase technology would help mitigate this issue.

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