Fixing the CAPTCHA: turning jumbled words into a game

CAPTCHAs, or those jumbled words you have to enter to prove you’re a human on websites, suck. They detract from a website’s flow, and as security researchers at Imperva have found, they’re actually easily overcome by spammers. But some CAPTCHA …

Hackers spend a lot of their time educating other hackers

Hackers spent about 25 percent of their time in forums giving other hackers beginner tips, according to a survey by cyber security firm Imperva.

Hackers devote a lot of time to hacking tutorials, which means there is a strong and …

Watch out for botnet-driven Google Dorks, the next automated cyber attacks

Botnets have been taking down web sites for years by overwhelming sites with too much traffic. But now the swarms of compromised computers are being unleashed for the first time on an old kind of vulnerability: Google Dorks.

Google Dorks …

Learning from LulzSec: For hackers, automated attacks reign

If you have a website serving a small community, you’re safe from cyberattacks, right?

Wrong. We are all at risk, according to the fittingly titled study, WAAR, or the Web Application Attack Report from data security company Imperva.

The first …

Security firm releases seven handles of suspected LulzSec members

Security firm Imperva said Tuesday it has assembled a profile of the activities of hacker group LulzSec and may have identified some members of the group, according to The Guardian.

Imperva claims that there are 10 or fewer hackers within …