Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The next time you sign in to your Google account, you’ll be encouraged to set up a passkey for a faster, more ...

Passkeys offer a way of confirming you are who you say you are without remembering a long, complicated password, and in a manner that's resistant to common attacks on passwords like phishing and ...

The most recent security innovation by Microsoft allows you to generate passkeys on Windows 11, which do not use passwords at all. This technology is a revolutionary authentication tool that involves ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The browser extension will now be able to store passkeys for supported websites, though you’ll have to wait a ...

Many notable services and websites are expanding security preferences to include access via passkey, a new way to log in to sites and apps without using a potentially vulnerable password. 1Password, ...

“Logging in without any passwords, how’s that supposed to work?” you may be asking yourself. After all, user names and passwords are so much a part of everyday life that it’s hard to imagine whether ...

WhatsApp has been internally testing passkey support in its iPhone app for some time. However, the option was still unavailable to most users. But that seems to be changing now, as Meta is slowly ...

Alan is a technology author based in Nova Scotia, Canada. A computer enthusiast since his youth, Alan stays current on what is new and what is next. With over 30 years of experience in computer, video ...

Previously on our passkey journey, I talked about the challenge of figuring out if a relying party-- typically, the operator of a website or app -- even offers the ability to sign in with a passkey ...

For the last five years, the FIDO Alliance -- led by Apple, Microsoft, and Google (with other companies in tow) -- has been blazing a trail toward a future where passwords are no longer necessary in ...

Haroun joined Android Police in 2021, reporting on the latest stories in the tech world. Since then, he’s gleefully covered everything from the most mundane Google Docs features to more mainstream ...

Digital passwords have existed since the 1960s, and we haven’t come up with a better option...until now. An tech industry-wide group called the FIDO Alliance aims to get rid of them, and for good ...