American multinational technology company, Google has announced a major effort to let its personal account holders log in with the password replacement known as “passkeys.”
According to tradebriefs.com, the new feature launched for the company’s billions of accounts, and users will be able to proactively seek it out and turn it on.
Google says it plans to promote passkeys in the coming months and start nudging account holders to convert their traditional username and password login to a passkey.
Password-based authentication has been standard across the internet (and computing in general) for decades, but the system has serious security issues, namely that attackers can steal your password or trick you into giving it to them in phishing attacks.
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The passkey scheme is specifically designed to address phishing attacks by relying on a different model that uses cryptographic keys stored on your devices for account authentication.
