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 ...

The latest phase of FIFA's ticket lottery for the 2026 World Cup has not gone off without a hitch. Though a schedule won't be out until after the World Cup draw occurs next month in Washington, D.C., ...

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 ...

CAPTCHA—short for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"—is a form of verification online that helps distinguish human users from bots on login, account sign-up, ...

Here’s a hot computer tip coming to you straight from 1995: don’t enter random stuff in the Windows Run command bar. This might seem obvious to anyone who knows what “run” means in a PC context, but ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Researchers working at the Netskope Threat Labs have observed ...

You know about captcha tests, right? The anti-bot checks that can be found all over the internet, usually when you log into accounts or post comments? The picture ...

Are you a bot that’s currently reading our website? If you aren’t, please verify your human status by solving a series of puzzles. That’s a scenario that most of us are familiar with. We go to a ...