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Hands-On Machine Learning for Cybersecurity
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Hands-On Machine Learning for Cybersecurity

by Soma Halder, Sinan Ozdemir
December 2018
Intermediate to advanced
318 pages
8h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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Knocking Down CAPTCHAs

CAPTCHA is short for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. These are tests that verify whether a computing system is being operated by a human or a robot.

CAPTCHAs were built in such a way that they would need human mediation to be administered to computing systems as a part of the authentication system to ensure system security and hence prevention of unwanted looses for organizations.

Apart from summarizing how CAPTCHA works, this chapter also covers the following topics:

  • Characteristics of CAPTCHAs
  • Using artificial intelligence to crack CAPTCHAs
  • Types of CAPTCHA
  • Solving CAPTCHAs with neural networks

The following screenshot shows a CAPTCHA image that is used for verification: ...

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ISBN: 9781788992282