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, those boxes you see may soon contain unavoidable video ads.READ»
Aware that login security is a hot-ticket item, Google's just added an opt-in extra layer of security for account holders. It instantly doubles the protection, and does so by leveraging codes sent to your cell phone.READ»
Facebook is the guardian of personal data on around one tenth of the human race, and it's always under fire for its lapse security. So it's trying to get really serious about the matter, with two big new features.READ»
Brace yourselves for another Apple patent. It's a weird and wacky one. It's about using a "seamless" biometric heart rate monitor to identify iPhone users. Seriously. Your boom-tiddy-boom could unlock your iPhony-phone.Apple's patent ...READ»
Facebook's Connect system, the unseen code that makes logging in to many other Web sites much easier, marches on--it's just reached MySpace for example. But Twitter isn't planning on being left out, and it's improving its own ...READ»
Google's got two new announcements: It's pairing up with Twitter for Friend Connect login purposes, and it's done the unthinkable and re-designed its home page. Both moves are surprising...do they mean the curly-haired youth of search ...READ»
See that little login window on the top right of this Web page? Mozilla, through Firefox, wants to do away with it--for all the best reasons. Mozilla's plan will simplify how you log into sites because, lets face it, IDing yourself ...READ»
Facebook Connect, the network's unified-login service, has been adopted by a litany of major sites, this one included. But in the year that it's been available, it hasn't become any easier to implement for amateur website ...READ»
