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Truth be told, I’m not the greatest fan of World Password Day. Such whimsical labels for one day of the year tend not to make much difference to the overall awareness of important security issues for most users, it seems to me. However, I’ll make an exception for 2022 as three technology behemoths used the focus of password day to announce a stunning security pact. Ironically, a pact that could see passwords phased out in day-to-day use for millions of people. Here’s what Apple, Google and… Source link

On May 5th — World Password Day — we might have come one step closer to passwords being a thing of the past. In a joint effort, tech giants Apple, Google, and Microsoft announced Thursday morning that they have committed to building support for passwordless sign-in across all of the mobile, desktop, and browser platforms that they control in the coming year. Effectively, this means that passwordless authentication will come to all major device platforms in the not too distant future:… Source link

May 5, 2022 PRESS RELEASE Apple, Google, and Microsoft commit to expanded support for FIDO standard to accelerate availability of passwordless sign‑ins Faster, easier, and more secure sign‑ins will be available to consumers across leading devices and platforms Mountain View, California In a joint effort to make the web more secure and usable for all, Apple, Google, and Microsoft today announced plans to expand support for a common passwordless sign-in standard created by the… Source link

Text size Wall Street will digest a wave of U.S. corporate earnings this week. Dreamstime Stocks were down… Source link

Boeing engineers huddle over a computer to work on an aircraft design. (Boeing Photo / Bob Ferguson) The billion-dollar competition to provide Boeing with cloud computing services is finished, and the winner is … a three-way split. Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft are all getting a share of the business, Boeing announced today. In a LinkedIn post, Susan Doniz, Boeing’s chief information officer and senior VP for information technology and data… Source link

As the war in Ukraine continues, companies as varied as Exxon, Visa, McDonald’s and Coca-Cola have suspended sales in Russia. Tech companies like Adobe, Apple and PayPal have joined in over the last couple of weeks. We queried the world’s top cloud infrastructure vendors (including Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM and Cloudflare) to find out how each was reacting to Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Each company let their public blog posts stand as the message they… Source link

Mandiant has attracted a second suitor, with Google joining public cloud rival Microsoft in attempting to buy the threat intelligence and incident response superstar. The move by Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant Google comes as some of its employees have privately discussed the need for more security firepower to compete with Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, The Information reported. Bids for Mandiant were due at the end of February, and the value of a potential deal… Source link

Cloud-computing services are so ubiquitous that it’s hard to fathom modern life without them. Take a photo on your phone and it is zapped to a cloud service for storage. Order shoes online, book a hotel room or stream a TV show, and the transaction likely takes place in the cloud. Moreover, thousands of companies and government agencies use cloud computing to run their core internal software and databases. Source link

Google announced last month that it plans to make free “legacy” G Suite accounts pay for a subscription by May 1st. The move surprised a bunch of G Suite users that have been using the service with custom domains, and now, Microsoft is trying to entice G Suite users to pay for Microsoft 365 instead with a 60 percent discount offer. “If you’re a small business that’s relied on G Suite legacy free edition, we couldn’t help but notice you might be in the market for a new… Source link

Microsoft is working on a new feature for its Microsoft Edge web browser that it calls Edge Bar. Edge Bar displays content in a floating window or pinned to the right side of the screen; both states are independent of the Edge browser window. Edge Bar is an experimental feature at this point that is rolled out gradually to users of the browser. You can check Menu > More Tools to see if Edge Bar is listed as one of the options. First launch displays a short reminder next to the bar with a… Source link