Security posts

ReCAPTCHAing the importance of UX

By Alistair Tweedie  |  Feb. 14, 2013  |  9 comments

Recently, I had the ‘joy’ of attempting to book tickets with Ticketmaster.co.uk and, I knew exactly what I was in for — pages to trawl through, lengthy reservation queues and a security enigma that wouldn’t be out of place on ‘Mastermind’.

But, thankfully I was able to breathe a sigh of relief when I found out that they were finally ditching their unnecessarily complicated, un-user friendly ‘CAPTCHA’ – after a fifth or sixth attempt, in my quest for tickets, I often feel like I am unsuccessfully attempting the latest MENSA conundrum. Considering their high volume of traffic, it’s no wonder Ticketmaster receive so many moans and groans from their customers. With stats showing that 25% of its users...

Firefox 16 crashes and burns

By Ben Moss  |  Oct. 11, 2012  |  44 comments

Mozilla’s Firefox has been slowly losing market share since its peak in mid-2009. Prior to the establishment of Google’s Chrome, Firefox was the only real alternative to the much despised Internet Explorer.

Its market share has been radically reduced by the advent of the mobile internet with consumers choosing to rely on default browsers, Apple’s Safari...