After some major blunders over the years, Microsoft has clearly been focusing more and more on security. Just this year, the company has plugged hundreds of security vulnerabilities across their various software and service offerings.…
Yesterday, Google announced that we’re now one step closer to a future without passwords: you can now use Google Password Manager on both Android and desktop devices to save passkeys, not just passwords. Up until…
Passkeys, the digital credentials that let you sign into apps and websites without entering a password, are getting easier to use for Chrome users. Starting today, you can save passkeys to Google Password Manager, Google’s…
Security is easiest when you are the password: You don’t have to memorize complicated keywords, but simply hold your face up to the camera or your finger on a sensor — and you can access…
“Logging in without any passwords, how’s that supposed to work?” you may be asking yourself. After all, user names and passwords are so much a part of everyday life that it’s hard to imagine whether…
For World Password Day, Microsoft is doing something I can appreciate: helping get rid of them. Today, the company said that all Microsoft consumer accounts will be passkey enabled. Adios, passwords! What’s a passkey? It…
Ahead of the U.S. presidential election, Google is bringing passkey support to its Advanced Protection Program (APP), which is used by people who are at high risk of targeted attacks, such as campaign workers, candidates,…
X, formerly Twitter, is rolling out support for passkeys, a new and more secure login method compared with traditional passwords, to all iOS users globally. The option had first debuted in January, but only for…