All: In a further effort to deter spam, Roanoke.com has added a "captcha" code bar for readers to type in before they enter a comment. We hope these human-readable images will thwart the loathsome ...

Ads are everywhere: They’re in our content, they’re online and offline, they’re on buses, billboards, and more. I’ve been told just to “get used to it” — that the advertising proliferation is only ...

Captcha (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) has become the standard term for simple human-or-robot tests. There are many different types of the process. It was ...

Sure, we’re grudgingly accustomed to those Captcha code boxes popping up online to verify we’re humans, not bots. But they’re about to get way more horrible. Thanks to moves by a firm called NuCaptcha ...

A report from security firm BitDefender suggests that spammers may have found a way to automatically break through certain types of graphical “captcha” code. “Captchas” are used in an attempt to ...

Researchers have developed a synthesis technique that generates moving pictures of 3-D objects which will allow security developers to generate an infinite number of "emergence" images virtually ...

Officials with the Georgia Department of Public Health and Microsoft are investigating why a security code that generated on the state website revealed a racial slur for a user. Georgia DPH officials ...

A racial slur that appeared in the CAPTCHA code on a Georgia Department of Public Health website has sparked an investigation by officials and Microsoft. The slur was flagged by Twitter user @DanieEve ...