Historians believe the first computer password was created in 1961 by MIT computer science professor Fernando Corbató, who needed a way to manage access to a time-sharing computer. A year later, one ...

Wanna know a secret? Whether you're logging into your bank, health insurance, or even your email, most services today do not ...

A hardware security key, like those offered by Yubico, is often said to be the most secure form of authentication. All the sensitive sign-in credentials are saved on a physical device that is always ...

Keeping your computer secure is more important than ever. Cyberattacks target computers, accounts and sensitive data daily. Traditional passwords have long been the cornerstone of security, but they ...

That's why passkeys are now posited as the modern alternative: secure by default, resistant to phishing, and practically ...

Passkeys offer a way of confirming you are who you say you are without remembering a long, complicated password, and in a manner that's resistant to common attacks on passwords like phishing and ...

We’re finally inching closer to curing our addiction to passwords. This week the FIDO Alliance put together an online event and posted a series of white papers to try to help businesses that want to ...

We’ve been using passwords to protect our various accounts for a few decades now, and, to be honest, we’re not very good at it. Many of us use the same simple, easy to remember passwords for all of ...

Google wants you to start using passkeys. Its vision is to “progress toward a passwordless future," allowing you to store passkeys in the Google Password Manager service. For websites that support the ...

Adoption of passkeys is fragmented across sites and devices. Users still need passwords for recovery and new device setup. Phishing protection makes passkeys worth adding, despite confusion. They are ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bitwarden, the credential management leader, today announced the availability of mobile passkey support for everyone. Setting Bitwarden as the default passkey ...

Microsoft is a prolific supporter of using passkeys over passwords. Authenticator will no longer save your passwords. But Authenticator can't be your comprehensive passkey manager. The Edge browser ...