Can you remember all your passwords off the top of your head? If so, you probably have too few of them – or, heaven forbid, only one that you use everywhere. But that problem could become a thing of the past in 2026.

Passwords are a cybersecurity nightmare, with hackers trading stolen sign-in credentials on illicit markets every day. That’s because the overwhelming majority of passwords are too hackable, according to an analysis by Verizon, with just 3 per cent complex enough to withstand hackers.


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Motherboard: Biometric and App Logins Will Soon Be Pushed Across the Web

In this article, FIDO Alliance Executive Director Brett McDowell tells Motherboard about WebAuthn, saying “What…

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The Verge: Chrome and Firefox will support a new standard for password-free logins

In his reporting on the newly announced FIDO2 Project, The Verge reporter Russell Brandon predicts…

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Ars Technica: Practical passwordless authentication comes a step closer with WebAuthn

ArsTechnica reports that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and FIDO Alliance announced that a…

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