Vault12 announced today the open-source release of electron-webauthn-mac, a native WebAuthn/Passkey implementation for Electron apps on macOS only that ports Apple's platform authenticators (Touch ID ...

A team of security researchers has raised the alarm about some cryptography-related issues with the newly released WebAuthn passwordless authentication protocol. WebAuthn was officially launched ...

WebAuthn is a new way of logging into websites that may finally free you from remembering passwords. Instead, you’ll use you: your fingerprint or face, or a hardware token. The WebAuthn API is now an ...

With strong support from Google, Microsoft and other vendors, WebAuthN is poised to become a true standard for passwordless authentication over the web. For decades we’ve been trying to replace the ...

Password-free logins have long been the stuff of dreams for security researchers and privacy advocates—not to mention regular people who fat-finger their account passwords into a browser every day.

A standard has been released that could end the need for passwords to online banking. The specification, called WebAuthn, provides a common way for browsers to accept fingerprint, facial and other ...

Apple's WebKit team have added 'experimental support' for Web Authentication, the standard for enabling website logins by plugging a USB security key into a computer. Web Authentication, or WebAuthn, ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and FIDO Alliance today announced that a new spec, WebAuthn (“Web Authentication”) had been promoted to the Candidate Recommendation stage, the penultimate stage in ...

The Internet began without an identity layer and has suffered since with a password retrofit, but new open, standards-based innovations for protecting log-ins to applications on the web, desktop, and ...

is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards. At its core, WebAuthn is an API that allows websites to ...