This post summarises five ways for consumers to improve their cybersecurity. FIDO USB keys and passkeys are included. Of passkeys, the article said: “Services including Google are switching to passwordless ‘passkey’ authentication that supercharges security without needing 2FA, but that technology is still in its early adoption days.”


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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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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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