April 10, 2018 – FIDO Alliance and W3C have made significant progress in Web authentication standards, bringing simpler and more powerful Web authentication methods to users around the world.
The W3C’s WebAuthn API enables a stronger, unique, public-key-based credential for each site, thereby reducing the risk that other sites will be vulnerable to a site password theft. WebAuthn integrates into browser and web platform infrastructure, providing users with new methods for secure authentication on the web, browsers, different sites, and devices
Mozilla’s Firefox took the lead in the deployment and deployment of this standard, followed by Chrome and Edge browsers also said they would follow suit. Chrome 67 focuses on enhancing the Site Isolation feature, ensuring that each browser tab is independent so that the website cannot obtain other open tab data.
Source: ZDNet
