Trend of increased authentication for Web transactions and social media use may be inconvenient and tedious for consumers but necessary to protect against abuse and malware, said security insiders.

Web authentication is headed for a sweeping change, as consumers and businesses increasingly look to a more effective way to establish identity and trust on the Internet, which in becoming a ...

Microsoft Edge now supports the Web Authentication specification for password-free logins. Support actually appeared in Build 17723 for Windows Insider Fast Ring participants and Build 18204 in the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...