Today, May 5, is also “celebrated” World Password Day. Date created to raise awareness among users Internet value online security. Enjoying the day Apple, Google and Microsoft jointly announced their plans to eliminate the need for passwords. Interestingly, the solution isn’t all that futuristic: it’s in your phone.

No password and no cyber attacks?

The joint proposal of three large technology companies is not something difficult to understand. To be honest, you are probably already using two-factor authentication for some kind of online account. This is the process: you log in to your account and a window prompts you to authenticate with a code sent to your mobile phone, email, or simply confirm access through statement services. It’s like that with Amazon and with myself GoogleFor example.

Apple, Google and Microsoft are committed to developing passwordless login support for all of their platforms in 2023. The physical authentication ecosystem will be available for smartphones android, ios, browsers Chrome, Edge and Safari and for Operating systems Windows and macOS.

The passwordless login integration will use physical authenticators: cell. This authentication system through smartphone effective in preventing cyberattacks because it requires hacker have something “physical” to complete an account hack.

Physical Authenticator: Backlash from Hackers

Phishing scams, which involve using a fake website to steal a victim’s password, are less effective when logging in through authentication through smartphone. In addition, the user won’t need to remember multiple passwords, be creative to create a new one, and prevent a repeated password from compromising multiple other accounts.

This type of authentication also eliminates the need to write down passwords. A few years ago, forever note suffered from attacks by cybercriminals trying to get passwords cryptocurrency wallets saved by users who used the service estimates companies to keep confidential data.

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Source: Edge