---
title: "Google and Facebook's CAPTCHAs cooked by security researchers"
url: "https://thecybersecurityplace.com/google-and-facebooks-captchas-cooked-by-security-researchers/"
date: "2016-04-07T04:38:56+00:00"
section: "Software"
tags:
  - "Software Security"
source: "theregister.co.uk"
source_url: "http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/07/captcha_rapture_as_google_facebook_humancheckers_wasted/"
---

# Google and Facebook's CAPTCHAs cooked by security researchers

April 7, 2016 · Reported by theregister.co.uk

![](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/portadas/2016/google-and-facebooks-captchas-cooked-by-security-researchers.jpg)

> Black Hat Asia Google’s and Facebook’s CAPTCHA services have been defeated in research that successfully designed an automated system to solve the “are-you-human?” verification challenges.
>
> CAPTCHAS are designed to make life easier for trusted users and painful for bots, by presenting challenges it’s hard for software to crack..

[Read the full article at theregister.co.uk](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/07/captcha_rapture_as_google_facebook_humancheckers_wasted/)

**Tags:** [Software Security](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/tag/software-security/)