It's been a quarter of a century since the invention of the CAPTCHA. The great gatekeeper of the internet was originally created by students at Carnegie Mellon University to prevent bots from rigging ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Welcome to our end-of-year Decoder special! Senior producers Kate Cox and Nick Statt here. We’ve had a big year, ...

This is one where I can commiserate with you, soccer fans: I was one of the lucky ones who got into the FIFA World Cup ticket lottery and won a chance to buy some tickets for the 2026 event in North ...

Russian state-backed hackers have stepped up their game with new malware families that hide behind fake CAPTCHA tests. The group, known as Star Blizzard or ColdRiver, now uses ClickFix attacks to ...

The popular pay-TV provider, Multichoice, has slashed the price of the DStv decoder from N10,000 to a N7,900, while the GOtv decoder price dropped to N6,500. This second major adjustment in months, ...

As I browse the web in 2025, I rarely encounter captchas anymore. There’s no slanted text to discern. No image grid of stoplights to identify. And on the rare occasion that I am asked to complete some ...

Are you human? A new game wants you to prove it. I’m Not a Robot is a fun spin on the popular CAPTCHA game synonymous with using the internet. Except it’s not just one game, but 48 increasingly absurd ...

When you log on to a site or go to buy something online, you may be asked to prove you're not a robot. Those tests are called CAPTCHA programs. A CAPTCHA program may present you with a collage of ...

Attackers are exploiting low-code AI platforms such as Vercel, Netlify, and Lovable to rapidly build phishing sites that look legitimate, trick users, and bypass automated security tools. In an ...