When the U.S. Department of the Interior recently conducted an internal investigation into password security, the findings described a situation ripe for exploitation by enterprising cybercriminals. In his Washington Post column, Greenblatt illustrates how his department needs to move away from passwords. We can bolster security with passwordless authentication in the form of passkeys. It’s impossible to access a passkey-protected account without physical access to the end-user device. 


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Spark, CBC Radio: Forget the password. No, really! They’re about to become obsolete

FIDO Executive Director Brett McDowell tells radio host Nora Young how WebAuthn is bringing simpler,…

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The Canadian Press: Death of the password? New web standard trades passcodes for biometrics

The Canadian Press reports that experts are “excited about the prospect of making logins “unphishable””…

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The Guardian: RIP passwords: new web standard designed to replace login method

In this article, The Guardian’s Samuel Gibbs reports that “WebAuthn will eliminate need for passwords…

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