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When a clickjack attack managed to hijack a passkey authentication ceremony, were password managers really to blame? ZDNET's investigation reveals a more complicated answer.

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I recently started using the Gmail Android app again, and I've been loving it — but only after I changed this one setting.

The technology industry is making a concerted push to replace traditional passwords with passkeys, a modern authentication method that leverages cryptographic credentials based on the FIDO2 standard.

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