Spam Gets Past CAPTCHA

According to the mighty Slashdot and tech.blorge.com (so what's a blorge?), it seems like spammers have found a way past the CAPTCHA system of numbers and letters.

It appears that spammers have found a way of automatically creating Hotmail and Yahoo email accounts, having already created more than 15,000 bogus Hotmail accounts, according to security company BitDefender.

Both Microsoft and Yahoo use "captcha" systems to stop email accounts from being automatically generated; accounts aren't created until a new user correctly identifies letters depicted in an image. Captcha systems are designed to ensure that the letters are not easily recognized by machines.

The new threat comes as a Trojan, says the article, that seems to be able to access valid e-mail address and sends users off to a site advertising pharmacy products.

Personally, I wonder if the makers of a certain brand of condom is behind all this. You know, Trojan, pharmacy products ... . Anyhoo.

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