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All users need to log online now is Microsoft's new web authenticator, which relies on fingerprints, facial recognition, and special PINs. Credit: William Thomas Cain/Getty Images Microsoft Edge just ...

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 ...

Of all the things which are annoying about the modern World Wide Web, the need to create and remember countless passwords is on the top of most people’s lists. From dozens of passwords for everything ...

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Tech companies have been trying to do away with web passwords for years, but now it looks like they've reached a key milestone. The FIDO Alliance and W3C have launched a Web Authentication standard ...

Mozilla has added support for two-factor authentication in Firefox Accounts, its login system for syncing bookmarks, passwords, and open tabs across desktop and mobile devices. Mozilla will allow ...

IdentiPHI has released SAFsolution® Enterprise Citrix Web Authenticator which takes their standard Citrix web interface authenticator further by replacing passwords with fingerprint biometric ...

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 ...

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