Payments heavyweight Visa, through a newly-announced investment in LoginID (a FIDO-certified authentication provider), is investing in the marriage between payments and authentication — done seamlessly and without the password. FIDO’s standards are supported by Visa and payment network peers such as Mastercard and American Express, along with tech firms like Microsoft and Google.


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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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CNET: Password-free web security is coming to Chrome, Firefox, Edge

CNET reports that leading browsers Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge will support WebAuthn…

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Engadget: Web standard brings password-free sign-ins to virtually any site

Tech companies have been trying to do away with web passwords for years, but now…

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