Impressive new technology to fight fraud is emerging from businesses. The tech industry association called the FIDO Alliance is working toward replacing passwords — a key vulnerability — with more secure technologies, including biometrics. Executive Director Andrew Shikiar says this could be done for most online passwords within five years.


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