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 ...

Introducing WebAuthN The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the international group behind many of the Internet’s latest developing open standards, created the working group behind WebAuthN in February ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Discord has made security key multi-factor authentication (MFA) available for all accounts on the platform, bringing significant security and anti-phishing benefits to its 500+ million registered ...

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 ...