March 28, 2024

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TikTok introduces passkey support for iOS devices

TikTok is introducing support for passkeys on iPhones, allowing users to sign in with either Touch ID or Face ID instead of entering passwords. Passkeys are password replacements that can confirm your identity based on encrypted biometric authentication methods already available on your device. TikTok is rolling out passkeys for iOS in certain regions, starting […]

Safari will soon make it easier to share phishing-resistant passkeys

Apple is making it slightly easier to share passkeys with a new Safari feature shipping in macOS Sonoma. Security didn’t get much of a mention during Apple’s WWDC keynote on Monday, but the company did announce a new feature Family Sharing feature in Safari that will allow users to share passkeys with friends and family. […]

Safari will soon make it easier to share phishing-resistant passkeys by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

Google Workspace and Cloud get support for passkeys

A month ago, Google rolled out passkey support to consumer Google accounts. Today, it is extending this to business users, with the open beta launch of passkeys for Google Workspace and Cloud accounts. Like almost every other major tech company, Google has been waging war against passwords for years. The promise of passkeys is that […]

Google Workspace and Cloud get support for passkeys by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

1Password’s new service lets businesses quickly adopt passkeys

Password manager 1Password today launched a new service, Passage by 1Password, that’s designed to allow businesses to build passkey authentication into their apps and websites without having to maintain their own security infrastructure. The rollout signals 1Password’s expansion beyond credential management and into the customer identity access management space. But it’s also on trend. Apple […]

1Password’s new service lets businesses quickly adopt passkeys by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Google now lets you access your account with passkeys rather than passwords

Google announced today that passkeys are now rolling out to Google Account users globally. The news comes nearly a year to the day after Google, Apple, Microsoft, and the FIDO Alliance announced a partnership to make frictionless passwordless logins a reality across devices, operating systems, and browsers. While multi-factor authentication mechanisms and password managers offer […]

Google now lets you access your account with passkeys rather than passwords by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch