Why Isn’t CAPTCHA Dead Yet?

The team at AltaVista (RIP) invented the CAPTCHA in 1997. At the time, it was a groundbreaking solution to a niche problem: preventing bots from entering URLs into the web search engine. Fast forward to 2021, and there are more than 20 different CAPTCH… Continue reading Why Isn’t CAPTCHA Dead Yet?

Why Isn’t CAPTCHA Dead Yet?

The team at AltaVista (RIP) invented the CAPTCHA in 1997. At the time, it was a groundbreaking solution to a niche problem: preventing bots from entering URLs into the web search engine. Fast forward to 2021, and there are more than 20 different CAPTCH… Continue reading Why Isn’t CAPTCHA Dead Yet?

Is there some international captcha standard (possibly with some implementation alongside it)? [closed]

I am developing a Content Management System Agnostic (CMS-Agnostic) HTML-PHP-JavaScript-CSS contact form and I want to embed a captcha module in it.
I want my backend code (PHP in that case but it could have been any other communally-devel… Continue reading Is there some international captcha standard (possibly with some implementation alongside it)? [closed]

Is using PBKDF2 good protection against brute-force attacks on web application login pages?

We’ve recently had a penetration test for one of our applications.
The Penetration Testing company identified that our application lacks protections against brute-force attacks on the login page.
Ref: https://owasp.org/www-community/contro… Continue reading Is using PBKDF2 good protection against brute-force attacks on web application login pages?