Passwordless Google Accounts

I’m in.

I have written about passwordlessness (I probably made that word up!) before. Eliminating the password makes it much harder for threat actors to compromise your security, exploit stolen credentials and gain unauthorised access to systems such as Microsoft and now Google:

Google adds passkeys support for passwordless sign-in on all accounts (bleepingcomputer.com)

And to reinforce why doing away with passwords is a good idea not a bad one – another password bank has been compromised:

1Password explains scary Secret Key and password change alerts (bleepingcomputer.com)

Further Reading

FIDO – the new word in identity authentication UPDATED 11 May 2022