Abstract: A system and method for securing a user on a network using a cursor control is disclosed. The system includes a client and a server. The server includes a back-end component that generates graphics that include a keyboard. The key on the keyboard may be randomly assigned. The graphic is displayed on the client. The user enters a sequence of character coordinates by clicking on the keyboard within the graphic. The sequence is captured and forwarded to the back-end component for authentication.

Abstract: A navigation system for a hierarchy of objects displayed by a computing system are rapidly navigated first by an automatic explosion module for exploding a displayed node of the hierarchy in response to a first characteristic stroke by a pointer control device while the pointer is within the boundary of the displayed node. In addition, an implosion module implodes nodes branching from a displayed node of the hierarchy in response to a second characteristic stroke by the pointer control device while the pointer is within the boundary of the displayed node. The first characteristic stroke by the pointer control device is movement of the pointer controlled by the pointer control device within the boundaries of the displayed node. The second characteristic stroke by the pointer control device is a mouse click while the pointer is within the boundaries of the displayed node or object. A keystroke module sets the level of further explosion of the node when the displayed node is exploded by the explosion module.