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This Windows PowerShell Phish Has Scary Potential

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Many GitHub users this week received a novel phishing email warning of critical security holes in their code. Those who clicked the link for details were asked to distinguish themselves from bots by pressing a combination of keyboard keys that causes Microsoft Windows to download password-stealing malware. While it …

Use AWS WAF CAPTCHA to protect your application against common bot traffic

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In this blog post, you’ll learn how you can use a Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) with other AWS WAF controls as part of a layered approach to provide comprehensive protection against bot traffic. We’ll describe a workflow that tracks …

Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement lacks crosswalks, checkboxes, Google

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Enlarge / CAPTCHAs are meant to prevent these kinds of browsing scenarios, not train us all to better recognize vehicles and infrastructure in grainy photos. (credit: Getty Images) Cloudflare has recently made an audacious claim: We could all be doing something better with our lives than deciding which images contain …