Have Spammers Overcome the CAPTCHA?

thefickler writes "It appears that spammers have found a way to automatically create Hotmail and Yahoo email accounts. They have already generated more than 15,000 bogus Hotmail accounts, according to security company BitDefender. The company says that a new threat, dubbed Trojan.Spammer.HotLan.A, is using automatically generated Yahoo and Hotmail accounts to send out spam email, which suggests that spammers have found a way to overcome Microsoft's and Yahoo's CAPTCHA systems."

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>Indians are fast, accurate and cheap:
Hmm. All the stuff we've outsourced has been less that good. They come here, we do knowledge transfer, they go home, 6 months later leave the company and we're back to square one. The code is often so buggy it won't even compile. They're great at doing all the CMM stuff so get to tick all the boxes that keep management happy but the reality is the onshore people have to do twice the work to manage the problems.