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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Google is acting on its promise to banish more passwords. It just released Chrome 67 for the desktop, bringing the Web Authentication standard to what's arguably the most popular browser. As with ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have a general curiosity about how login sessions work. I.E., If I log into a website, what's typically happening that shows I have access rights to whichever pages, my specific user profile, etc?

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 ...