With strong support from Google, Microsoft and other vendors, WebAuthN is poised to become a true standard for passwordless authentication over the web. For decades we’ve been trying to replace the ...

A team of security researchers has raised the alarm about some cryptography-related issues with the newly released WebAuthn passwordless authentication protocol. WebAuthn was officially launched ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and FIDO Alliance today announced that a new spec, WebAuthn ("Web Authentication") had been promoted to the Candidate Recommendation stage, the penultimate stage in ...

A standard has been released that could end the need for passwords to online banking. The specification, called WebAuthn, provides a common way for browsers to accept fingerprint, facial and other ...

Although Google’s Chrome browser already enabled “password-free” logins by supporting the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) U2F standard, the latest desktop version hitting the stable channel this week, ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today declared that the Web ...

The SolarWinds security fiasco, which Microsoft president Brad Smith described as “the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen,” may have begun, suggested former SolarWinds CEO ...

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Auth0, the modern identity platform, today announced the launch of Auth0 WebAuthn Passwordless, an authentication feature that enables end-users to seamlessly log in ...

A glimpse of the future, the Yubikey 5Ci offers highly secured, encrypted account authentications that required better support by websites and apps, expected to come. Yubico’s new YubiKey 5Ci is the ...

The World Wide Web Consortium and the FIDO Alliance have certified WebAuthn as an official Web standard, allowing users of compatible browsers — Safari among them — to turn to hardware logins instead ...