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Facebook rolls out passkey support to fight phishing attacks
Passkeys can replace traditional passwords with your device’s own authentication methods. That way, you can sign in to Gmail, PayPal, or iCloud just by activating Face ID on your iPhone, your Android phone’s fingerprint sensor, or with Windows Hello on a PC. Built on WebAuthn (or Web Authentication) tech, two different keys are generated when you create a passkey: one…
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Passkey Adoption Is Accelerating in APAC — Except for Australia
Passkeys offer a phishing-resistant mode of authentication. Backed by tech giants Microsoft, Apple, and Google, passkeys leverage encrypted credentials stored on a digital or hardware device to replace passwords and weaker multi-factor authentication methods — prime vectors for cyber attacks. Despite its growth in APAC, passkey adoption has been relatively slow in Australia. In the public sector, MyGov only recently…
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