WebAuthn is a new way of logging into websites that may finally free you from remembering passwords. Instead, you’ll use you: your fingerprint or face, or a hardware token. The WebAuthn API is now an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apple's WebKit team have added 'experimental support' for Web Authentication, the standard for enabling website logins by plugging a USB security key into a computer. Web Authentication, or WebAuthn, ...

The specification, called WebAuthn, provides a common way for browsers to accept fingerprint, facial and other forms of biometric authentication from a smartphone, desktop or USB-connected hardware.

In the web browser war, Mozilla is positioning itself to dominate over the competition with its release of Firefox 60, which includes the option of a password-less signin. The latest version of the ...

Password-free logins have long been the stuff of dreams for security researchers and privacy advocates—not to mention regular people who fat-finger their account passwords into a browser every day.

The Internet began without an identity layer and has suffered since with a password retrofit, but new open, standards-based innovations for protecting log-ins to applications on the web, desktop, and ...

Erin Cunningham is a writer and editor based in Maryland with experience writing about state and local government, education, technology and more. Passwords stink. And everyone knows it. They are the ...

Two of the key bodies overseeing the Internet’s evolution today reached a major milestone in their effort to provide an alternative to password-based security. The FIDO Alliance and W3C, the main ...