FIDO Alliance

FIDO: Consumers are Adopting Passkeys for Authentication
The FIDO Alliance found in a survey that as consumers become more familiar with passkeys, they are adopting the technology as a more secure alternative to passwords to authenticate their identities online ...
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Google Pushes ‘Passkeys’ Plan — but it’s Too Soon for Mass Rollout
Richi Jennings | | 2 factor auth, 2-fa authentication, 2-factor authentication, 2fa, 2FA Authenticator, 2FA/MFA, advanced authentication, auth, Authentication, biometric, biometric authentication, biometric identification, biometric security, biometrics, biometrics authentication, Biometrics-Based Authentication, FIDO, FIDO Alliance, FIDO2, google, MFA, MFA rollout, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Passkeys, passwordless, passwordless login, passwordless-authentication, PKI-based passwordless authentication, SB Blogwatch, two-factor-authentication.2fa, WebAuthn
FIDO FAIL: “Killing passwords” is a worthy goal—but is coercion the best way? ...
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Can FIDO Passkeys and Accountability Coexist?
The Fast Identity Online (FIDO) alliance is an industry association spearheading efforts to reduce and eventually eliminate password use. To this end, FIDO promulgates standards and creates protocols intended to strengthen authentication ...
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FBI Warrantless Searches, Passwordless Sign-Ins, Keylogging Web Forms
Tom Eston | | Apple, Cybersecurity, data, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Episodes, FBI, FIDO, FIDO Alliance, google, Information Security, Infosec, Keylog, keylogging, Microsoft, passwordless, passwords, Podcast, Privacy, security, surveillance, technology, Warrant, Warrrantless, Weekly Edition
The FBI searched emails, texts and other electronic communications of 3.4 million U.S. residents without a warrant, Apple, Google, and Microsoft have announced they will support a new passwordless sign-in standard created ...

Your Phone May Soon Replace Many of Your Passwords
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, Apple, FIDO Alliance, google, Johannes Ullrich, Microsoft, Nicholas Weaver, Sampath Srinivas, SANS, Security Tools, SpyCloud, Steve Bellovin, World Wide Web Consortium
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 ...

Bad Dog—Everyone HATES This FIDO Passwordless Idea
Richi Jennings | | Authentication, FIDO Alliance, FIDO2, It seems like the the FIDO Alliance came up with a dog of a solution, passwordless, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, WebAuthn
Behold! The next steps to passwordless nirvana. But will FIDO2-WebAuthn let “privacy invading megacorps” profit from your private data? ...
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TikTok Privacy Concerns, macOS Ransomware, Bad Passwords
Tom Eston | | Apple, china, Chinese, Cybersecurity, Digital Privacy, EARN IT, FIDO Alliance, india, macos, Malware, passwords, Podcast Episodes, Privacy, Ransomware, security, The Secure Dad, TikTok, WebAuthn, Webkey, Weekly Blaze Podcast
In episode 128 for July 6th 2020: In episode 128 for July 6th 2020: New TikTok privacy concerns, the rise of macOS ransomware, and details on new research about bad password choices ...

The End of Passwords as We Know It
Tom Eston | | 2fa, Andrew Shikiar, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, FIDO, FIDO Alliance, interview, passwords, Podcast, Podcast Episodes, Privacy, WebAuthn, Weekly Blaze Podcast
In episode 118 for April 27th 2020: A discussion about the end of passwords and what the future may hold with special guest Andrew Shikiar executive director of the FIDO Alliance. ** ...
The FIDO Alliance Anniversary and YubiKey for RSA SecurID® Access
RSA Blog | | FIDO, FIDO Alliance, Identity Assurance, Identity Assurance Managment, RSA SecurID Access, Yubico, Yubikey
To address the risks associated with today?s dynamic workforce, customers need choice and simplicity. In commemoration of the FIDO Alliance anniversary, RSA® shares why choice is a key reason they support the ...

Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing
BrianKrebs | | 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
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 ...