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Lookup NU author(s): Ahmad Salah El Ahmad, Dr Jeff Yan, Emeritus Professor Lindsay MarshallORCiD
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CAPTCHA is a standard security technology that presents tests to tell computers and humans apart. In this paper, we examine the security of a new CAPTCHA that was deployed until very recently by Megaupload, a leading online storage and delivery website. The security of this scheme relies on a novel segmentation resistance mechanism. However, we show that this CAPTCHA can be segmented using a simple but new automated attack with a success rate of 78%. It takes about 120 ms on average to segment each challenge on a standard desktop computer.
Author(s): Salah El Ahmad A, Yan J, Marshall L
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: Proceedings of the third European Workshop on System Security (EUROSEC)
Year of Conference: 2010
Pages: 36-41
Publisher: ACM Press
URL: http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1760000/1752052/p36-el_ahmad.pdf
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ISBN: 9781450300599
