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Your Phone May Soon Replace Many of Your Passwords

May 7, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, apple, FIDO Alliance, google, johannes ullrich, microsoft, Nicholas Weaver, sampath srinivas, sans, Security Tools, spycloud, steve bellovin, World Wide Web Consortium

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 07 May 2022 13:31:17 +0000

Apple, Google and Microsoft announced this week they will soon support an approach to authentication that avoids passwords altogether, and instead requires users to merely unlock their smartphones to sign in to websites or online services. Experts say the changes should help defeat many types of phishing attacks and ease the overall password burden on Internet users, but caution that a true passwordless future may still be years away for most websites.

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Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing

July 23, 2018 admin 2fa, chrome, Dashlane, dropbox, Duo Security, Edge, Facebook, FIDO Alliance, Firefox, Firefox Quantum, GitHub, Google Advanced Protection, Keepass, lastpass, microsoft, opera, safari, Security Keys, Security Tools, U2F, Web Authentication API, WebAuthn, World Wide Web Consortium, Yubikey

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 11:34:38 +0000

Google has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017, when it began requiring all employees to use physical Security Keys in place of passwords and one-time codes, the company told KrebsOnSecurity.