CAPTCHAs, or those jumbled words you have to enter to prove you’re a human on websites, suck. They detract from a website’s flow, and as security researchers at Imperva have found, they’re actually ...

An Australian tech company has devised a new method of web authentication that could do away with those annoying CAPTCHA codes, but it will likely be of little benefit to those who need it the most.

The Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart is one of the internet's most annoying features. You know it as CAPTCHA, the feature that forces you to identify yourself ...

What do you put on your pancakes? Butter and syrup but not a pair of shoes? This makes sense to us, and it’s the premise of the new CAPTCHA game PlayThru. The space that is normally filled by nearly ...

More elusive than the Lost Ark and more mysterious than the Great Sphinx is CAPTCHA, that obfuscated string of letters and numbers Internet users must replicate to prove their humanity and gain access ...

One of the most annoying aspects of using the modern Internet is having to convince every other website that I am, in fact, a human, typically by clicking on little squares of traffic lights and ...

Few things on the Internet are both as necessary and annoying as CAPTCHAs, but it’s difficult to otherwise verify that a human being is attempting to access a site or send information. There have been ...

PlayThru eliminates a significant barrier for consumers buying tickets online by giving them an easier way to verify they are human. Use of PlayThru's game-based verification results in a 40% increase ...

Discover how Neal Agarwal’s browser game I’m Not a Robot turns the dreaded reCAPTCHA into a hilarious, surreal puzzle experience. From Tic Tac Toe with AI to muffin-dog confusion, it’s CAPTCHA like ...

Bots account for nearly half of global internet traffic, increasing the need for online security. Whether browsing on an ...

In the never-ending struggle of the CAPTCHA, things just got a little bit worse. That little rectangle of distorted text, which seems to exist solely for the purpose of making Ticketmaster more ...