A look at the recently released YubiKey 5 hardware authenticator series and how web authentication with the new WebAuthn API leverages devices like the YubiKey for painless website registration and ...

Of all the things which are annoying about the modern World Wide Web, the need to create and remember countless passwords is on the top of most people’s lists. From dozens of passwords for everything ...

Mozilla launched the first beta version of its browser-independent website authentication system, Persona, on Thursday and hopes to convince the Web developer community to give it a try. The Persona ...

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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 ...

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Today, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the organization behind all web standards, has formally promoted the Web Authentication API to the title of official web standard. This promotion means the ...

LAS VEGAS — May 23, 2018 — Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, today announced a new API offering. API Products for One App, makes it easy and ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. With Digital Resolve's Fraud Analyst Website Authentication Module, ...

MacBook Pro users will soon be able to take advantage of Touch ID to authenticate themselves with websites in Chrome, with version 70 of Google's web browser adding support for fingerprint readers in ...