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With Old-Guard Captcha Solutions Rendered Ineffective by "Captcha Farms", CAPTCHA2.0 is Now Available From SiteBlackBox
A Breakthrough User-Friendly Captcha Solution Designed Specifically to Detect and Fail Captcha Relays, as Well as OCRs and Spammers
TEL-AVIV, Israel, March 15, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- Web security start-up SiteBlackBox.com announces the release of
CAPTCHA2.0, a smart web service designed to protect website access from
malicious use. Whereas most Captcha solutions focus on telling apart robots
from humans, CAPTCHA2.0 takes it up a notch and utilizes patent-pending
technologies to combat just as effectively 'Paid Captcha Relays', also known
as 'Captcha Farms'. These are black hat providers that recruit workers from
low cost markets to manually solve captcha tests for malicious purposes at
low wholesale costs thus rendering currently available solutions ineffective.
Captcha technology's goal is to determine if people accessing your site
are really human, or machines. For example spambots may automatically create
numerous free gmail or facebook accounts to use for sending spam. Others post
advertisements as blog comments, or gain access to sites like craigslist.com
in order to copy their content. Captchas perform a crucial security role in
screening out unwanted access.
Attackers use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to
automatically decode these captcha puzzles, while software companies
retaliate by creating more difficult and distorted captcha. These became so
difficult that legitimate customers find them frustrating and hard to solve.
"The funny thing is that attackers are bypassing these software based
solutions altogether," explains Shay Rapaport, CEO of SiteBlackBox.com. "The
spambots use readymade tools from 'Captcha Relay Service Providers' ('Captcha
Farms') to relay the image to human image-solvers from developing countries.
These are paid as low a cent to solve 20 captchas, working from home.
CAPTCHA2.0 is the first solution designed specifically to combat Captcha
Relay, by determining whether the person solving the captcha is the same
person actually browsing the site. Its patent pending technology makes it
very difficult for bots and relays to solve, while being very easy for
legitimate human users. It uses reputation management to build a database of
good and bad users, making spammers interactions even more difficult, and
ultimately avoiding testing users it recognizes to be legitimate.
"Every security solution is at bottom line a financial barrier to
penetration. The cost of breaking currently available captchas has been
reduced to the point where it's cost-effective for spammers to pay 'Captcha
Farms' to help their automated activities. They reason they'll get much more
financial gain than the cents it costs them to break captchas and exploit
your site. Our goal in CAPTCHA2.0 is to make it prohibitively expensive for
the spammers to attempt gaining access."
Captcha 2.0 is based on animated GIF technology supported by all browsers
and devices. It has an integrated reputation management mechanism to combat
spammers.
SiteBlackBox Ltd. (http://www.siteblackbox.com) secures web companies
against automated abuses of their content and platforms, such as content
scraping, data-mining, web spam and more.
Contact Information:
Mr. Gitai Naveh
gitai.n@siteblackbox.com
Tel-Aviv
Israel
Tel: +972-3-736-3041
USA/Canada Toll Free 1-888-777-7020
Source: SiteBlackBox.com
Contact Information: Mr. Gitai Naveh, gitai.n@siteblackbox.com, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Tel: +972-3-736-3041, USA/Canada Toll Free 1-888-777-7020
With Old-Guard Captcha Solutions Rendered Ineffective by "Captcha Farms", CAPTCHA2.0 is Now Available From SiteBlackBox
A Breakthrough User-Friendly Captcha Solution Designed Specifically to Detect and Fail Captcha Relays, as Well as OCRs and Spammers
TEL-AVIV, Israel, March 15, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- Web security start-up SiteBlackBox.com announces the release of
CAPTCHA2.0, a smart web service designed to protect website access from
malicious use. Whereas most Captcha solutions focus on telling apart robots
from humans, CAPTCHA2.0 takes it up a notch and utilizes patent-pending
technologies to combat just as effectively 'Paid Captcha Relays', also known
as 'Captcha Farms'. These are black hat providers that recruit workers from
low cost markets to manually solve captcha tests for malicious purposes at
low wholesale costs thus rendering currently available solutions ineffective.
Captcha technology's goal is to determine if people accessing your site
are really human, or machines. For example spambots may automatically create
numerous free gmail or facebook accounts to use for sending spam. Others post
advertisements as blog comments, or gain access to sites like craigslist.com
in order to copy their content. Captchas perform a crucial security role in
screening out unwanted access.
Attackers use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to
automatically decode these captcha puzzles, while software companies
retaliate by creating more difficult and distorted captcha. These became so
difficult that legitimate customers find them frustrating and hard to solve.
"The funny thing is that attackers are bypassing these software based
solutions altogether," explains Shay Rapaport, CEO of SiteBlackBox.com. "The
spambots use readymade tools from 'Captcha Relay Service Providers' ('Captcha
Farms') to relay the image to human image-solvers from developing countries.
These are paid as low a cent to solve 20 captchas, working from home.
CAPTCHA2.0 is the first solution designed specifically to combat Captcha
Relay, by determining whether the person solving the captcha is the same
person actually browsing the site. Its patent pending technology makes it
very difficult for bots and relays to solve, while being very easy for
legitimate human users. It uses reputation management to build a database of
good and bad users, making spammers interactions even more difficult, and
ultimately avoiding testing users it recognizes to be legitimate.
"Every security solution is at bottom line a financial barrier to
penetration. The cost of breaking currently available captchas has been
reduced to the point where it's cost-effective for spammers to pay 'Captcha
Farms' to help their automated activities. They reason they'll get much more
financial gain than the cents it costs them to break captchas and exploit
your site. Our goal in CAPTCHA2.0 is to make it prohibitively expensive for
the spammers to attempt gaining access."
Captcha 2.0 is based on animated GIF technology supported by all browsers
and devices. It has an integrated reputation management mechanism to combat
spammers.
SiteBlackBox Ltd. (http://www.siteblackbox.com) secures web companies
against automated abuses of their content and platforms, such as content
scraping, data-mining, web spam and more.
Contact Information:
Mr. Gitai Naveh
gitai.n@siteblackbox.com
Tel-Aviv
Israel
Tel: +972-3-736-3041
USA/Canada Toll Free 1-888-777-7020
Source: SiteBlackBox.com
Contact Information: Mr. Gitai Naveh, gitai.n@siteblackbox.com, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Tel: +972-3-736-3041, USA/Canada Toll Free 1-888-777-7020