Phishing and other attacks usually have one goal: passwords. So the world could be a better place without passwords. There have already been several attempts to bury the passwords. All have failed – due to the complexity, the costs for hardware keys, for example, or the inconvenient use. The new approach with FIDO2 and Passkeys sounds more promising. By the way, FIDO stands for Fast Identity Online.


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ComputerWeekly: Time to deploy strong authentication, says FIDO

In this ComputerWeekly story, FIDO Alliance CMO Andrew Shikiar explains that with the tools required…

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Threatpost: Threatpost Survey Says: 2FA is Just Fine, But Go Ahead and Kill SMS

In a Threatpost survey on two-factor authentication, 57% of respondents said hardware tokens like FIDO…

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The Parallax: Primer: How to lock your online accounts with a security key

This article in The Parallax reports that FIDO Security Keys, FIDO2 and WebAuthn are gaining…

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