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Your Phone May Soon Replace Many of Your Passwords

Your Phone May Soon Replace Many of Your Passwords

| | A Little Sunshine, Apple, FIDO Alliance, google, Johannes Ullrich, Microsoft, Nicholas Weaver, Sampath Srinivas, SANS, Security Tools, SpyCloud, Steve Bellovin, World Wide Web Consortium
Apple, Google and Microsoft announced this week they will soon support an approach to authentication that avoids passwords altogether, and instead requires users to merely unlock their smartphones to sign in to ...
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Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing

Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing

| | Chrome, Dashlane, dropbox, Duo Security, edge, facebook, FIDO Alliance, Firefox, Firefox Quantum, GitHub, Google Advanced Protection, KeePass, lastpass, Microsoft, opera, Safari, Security Keys, Security Tools, U2F, Web Authentication API, WebAuthn, World Wide Web Consortium, Yubikey
Google has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017, when it began requiring all employees to use physical Security Keys in place of ...
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WebAuthn, Passwordless Authentication

WebAuthn, Passwordless Authentication

| | Information Security, Web security, WebAuthn, World Wide Web Consortium
via Peter Bright writing at Ars Technica, comes an interesting piece discussing the efforts to implement and deploy WebAuthn, the so-called passwordless authentican scheme promulgated by the W3C, and fully implemented in ...
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