The latest version of Microsoft Live Hotmail’s CAPTCHA authentication system has been broken, reports InfoWorld via security company Websense. According to a detailed analysis of the latest hack by Websense, spammers have come up with a new scheme to fool the CAPTCHA: The process starts in the same way as did previous CAPTCHA-breaking attacks, using bot-controlled zombie Computers under remote control to fill in the main fields - name, password, country - asked for by Hotmail during signup. The CAPTCHA image presented by Hotmail is then uploaded to a remote server for image decoding, before being sent back to the client for the attempt to create the fake account to proceed. The latest hack comes just months after Microsoft modified…

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