Even with WYSIWYG website builders back in the day, like Microsoft FrontPage and Adobe Dreamweaver, that allowed users to build websites easily, there was still some skill involved if you wanted to ...

Passkeys may be the future, but they sure can be bewildering — especially in a business context. Here are straightforward answers to all your pressing passkey questions. Once upon a time, signing into ...

Passkeys are a safer, simpler and faster replacement for passwords, which are fraught with security concerns. Major companies are increasingly adopting passkeys and Microsoft is ditching passwords ...

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 ...

Not everyone agrees. But I’ve found that some dissent is rooted in a lack of understanding how passkeys work. I don’t blame the skeptics. Passkeys are simple to use, but their technical nuances can be ...

It’s that time again, when families and friends gather and implore the more technically inclined among them to troubleshoot problems they’re having behind the device screens all around them. One of ...

A researcher developed an exploit that hijacks passkey authentication. The exploit depends on a non-trivial combination of pre-existing conditions. Neither the passkeys nor the protocol was proven to ...

Generative AI makes it dangerously easy for attackers to create convincing phishing websites, even with no coding skills—raising the stakes for online security. That’s why switching to passkeys, which ...

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