Venture Beat reports on Google’s announcement that phones running Android 7.0 Nougat and higher can now double as a FIDO2 security key, which means a remote hacker can’t use phishing to trick users into handing over their online credentials. 


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Dark Reading: FIDO Alliance Appoints Facebook to Board of Directors

Facebook has joined Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Intel and other major influential tech companies to back…

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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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