A security researcher said spammers are using a bot to sidestep barriers that Microsoft has erected to keep scammers from creating massive numbers of accounts on its Live Mail service.

However, Prasad was able to pull apart the CAPTCHA bot’s code and uncover how the instructions are passed between the individual bots and the central command-and-control server.

A new bot can crack defenses erected by Microsoft to keep spammers from creating large numbers of accounts on its Live Hotmail service within seconds, a security researcher said Friday.

When using services on the Internet, you may be required to take a test called ' CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart)' to prove that you are not a ...