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Your Phone May Soon Replace Many of Your Passwords

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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 websites or online services. Experts say the changes should help defeat many types of phishing attacks and ease the overall password burden on Internet users, but caution that a true passwordless future may still be years away for most websites. Continue reading Your Phone May Soon Replace Many of Your Passwords→

Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing

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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 passwords and one-time codes, the company told KrebsOnSecurity. Continue reading Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing→

WebAuthn, Passwordless Authentication

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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 Mozilla Firefox 60 anf Google … Continue reading WebAuthn, Passwordless Authentication→

Richard Stallman Braved a Winter Storm Last Night to March Against DRM

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As representatives of Comcast, Netflix and Microsoft meet to discuss the future of the web, an angry crowd is forming outside. Continue reading Richard Stallman Braved a Winter Storm Last Night to March Against DRM→