Yahoo! CAPTCHA Cracked

January 30th, 2008 by Brandon

A group of russian hackers/crackers have released a new way to crack the captcha that Yahoo! uses in everything, chat, mail, registration. So everyone get ready to see a large surge of porn bots in the chat rooms. Yahoo! why not use the spam filter idea I talked about previously? You guys must have the resources to put it in place. Granted the captcha method did reduce the number of bots, but it certainly didn’t solve the problem like they had stated or we all hoped for.

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Yahoo Messenger Sign-In Problems

January 9th, 2008 by Brandon

Yesterday it appears that many users were having problems logging into the Yahoo! Messenger program. Yahoo! Messenger representatives suggested you use the web messenger, as it was not experiencing any problems. Today an update has been issued from Sarah Bacon on the Yahoo! Messenger Blog suggesting that the sign-in problem has now been fixed.