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 ...

Today, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the organization behind all web standards, has formally promoted the Web Authentication API to the title of official web standard. This promotion means the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...