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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

vBulletin forums hit by reCAPTCHA cracking spam bot

Since the holidays ended, security vendors have been happily telling me that spam levels have dropped dramatically. The spammers, they say, have taken some time off.
That may well have been the case as far as email spam was concerned, but back in the real world — which includes any business running a vBulletin forum for customer support — things have been far from quiet. In fact, there’s something of a spam crisis going on right now as it appears the bad guys have worked out how to crack the reCAPTCHA system that safeguards vBulletin-powered forum registrations from automated bots.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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