As someone who seems to live most of his life on the Internet, I’ve always appreciated Apple’s thorough and thoughtful approach to security. The company realizes that we keep all sorts of important ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Passwords are kind of a pain. You probably have sign-in credentials for about a million services, and ideally, they're all ...

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WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned popular messaging app with more than 2 billion users, has been getting a lot of heat and losing users in recent weeks after announcing (and then delaying) changes to how ...

Web Authentication (aka WebAuthn) has been a de facto standard for no-password web sign-ins for a while given that many tech giants are already using it, but now it's official. The World Wide Web ...

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 ...

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 ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the entity that maintains the standards used across the internet, said on Monday, April 9, that Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla signed on to support web-based ...

Apple allows Touch ID and Face ID to be used in lieu of a password to access sensitive apps like those for banking or password management, and in the future, ‌Face ID‌ and ‌Touch ID‌ will also be able ...

It may have been drawn two decades ago, but the old New Yorker cartoon still rings true: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." "It's really easy to be whoever you want to be on the Internet," ...

Getting ready for the end of Basic Authentication in Exchange Web Services Your email has been sent https://assets.techrepublic.com/uploads/2019/11/20191105-Ignite ...