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A Simple Generic Attack on Text Captchas

A single pipeline built on Log-Gabor filters segments and recognises the characters of text CAPTCHAs whatever anti-segmentation trick a scheme uses. It broke schemes from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon at 5 to 77 percent success in under 15 seconds on an ordinary desktop, letting an attacker automate account creation and other bulk abuse.

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Researcher
Haichang Gao, Jeff Yan, Fang Cao, Zhengya Zhang, Lei Lei, Mengyun Tang, Ping Zhang, Xin Zhou, Xuqin Wang and Jiawei Li
Published by
ndss-symposium.org
Format
Whitepaper
Topic
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This page is the archive's own catalogue record. The research is the work of Haichang Gao, Jeff Yan, Fang Cao, Zhengya Zhang, Lei Lei, Mengyun Tang, Ping Zhang, Xin Zhou, Xuqin Wang and Jiawei Li, first published at the original source. Preserved copies are kept so the citation survives its host; this one was last captured on .