Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) For more than a decade, we’ve been promised that a world without passwords is just around the corner, and yet year after year, this security Nirvana proves out of reach. Now, for the first time, a workable form of passwordless authentication is about to become available to the masses in the […]
Enlarge (credit: Elena Lacey) After years of tantalizing hints that a passwordless future is just around the corner, you’re probably still not feeling any closer to that digital unshackling. Ten years into working on the issue, though, the FIDO Alliance, an industry association that specifically works on secure authentication, thinks it has finally identified the […]
You can use the keys to skip passwords or as a second form of authentication. (credit: Yubico) Security experts have long abhorred passwords. They’re hackable, forgettable, and, sometimes, guessable (looking at you, password1). As companies like Microsoft and Google move to embrace passwordless logins, Yubico thinks it has the key to keeping things simple. The […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Like most Internet-of-things devices these days, Amazon’s Echo Dot gives users a way to perform a factory reset so , as the corporate behemoth says , users can “remove any… personal content from the applicable device(s)” before selling or discarding all of them. But researchers have recently found that the digital […]
Enlarge (credit: Leon Neal | Getty Images) A popular app that promised to eliminate the burden of remembering passwords has sparked a backlash by demanding, weeks after it was acquired by two private equity firms, that users pay up or face restrictions on access to their online accounts. LastPass has encouraged millions of people to […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Google is adding its password checkup feature to Android, making the mobile OS the latest company offering to give users an easy way to check if the passcodes they’re using have been compromised. Password Checkup works by checking credentials entered into apps against a list of billions of credentials compromised in […]
Enlarge / Please don’t do this. (credit: Getty Images) If you’re like lots of people, someone has probably nagged you to use a password manager and you still haven’t heeded the advice. Now, Chrome and Edge are coming to the rescue with beefed-up password management built directly into the browsers. Microsoft on Thursday announced a […]