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We have just released the newest version of Super CAPTCHA for WordPress.  Incrementing its version to now 2.3.3, Super CAPTCHA should run on all WordPress systems version 3.0.0 or later.  Boasting the only release to-date for WordPress that includes a full anti-spam suite and the first ever WordPress 3-D CAPTCHA. You can now worry less about those pesky automated signups and focus more on developing your WordPress site and community.  We have tested this captcha system against 37 different automated OCR engines and found that this is the first CAPTCHA system ever to be 100% defensible  [...]

Super CAPTCHA goes 3D!  Our legendary product, Super CAPTCHA for WordPress included a very bold and daring update in which moves it to another category of CAPTCHA’s.  By creating a code that can only be interpreted by 3-D linear algorithms (not a task any ordinary computer can process), this software essentially forces all signups on your WordPress site to be human signups. We realize that 3D CAPTCHA technology is new and some of your visitors may be unable to interpret the images, in such a case we did leave the option for every webmaster to be able to revert back to the old 2D  [...]

Super CAPTCHA was one of the first pieces of software we developed under the General Public License. Since we developed it, it ran across the internet like wild-fire as everyone running WordPress blogs knew they were vulnerable to one thing — Spam. It really isn’t very fun to login to your blog every day and spend two hours sifting through spam, so we developed this piece of software and figured that it would be a show of low morale character to sell the product being there were so many people whom really needed the product. So we published it for the public and today, over  [...]

Many WordPress MU blog admins are going after spam registration and spam comments in the wrong ways.  Lately I have been doing some studying on the methods in which spam bots attack websites with this spam and the reasons of “why”. METHODOLOGY Bots usually utilize cURL, the open source PHP package used to gather data from a web page and access external web pages to include in  [...]