Today Microsoft will release two out of band patches: one to address a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that is rated as “critical” (which typically means that there are exploits available in the wild that predicate the need to have to release an update outside of the normal “Patch Tuesday” schedule which occurs on the second Tuesday of every month. The second patch is rated as “moderate” by Microsoft and affects Visual Studio. MORE

CAPTCHAs – Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.

In other words, an attempt at verification that a human is filling out a web form as opposed to an automated agent/bot.

Or, in other other words, a test that has become almost impossible for humans to even pass due to the increased levels of obfuscation being put into the tests themselves. MORE