The massive theft of passwords or individual shows, day after day, that neither the name nor our pets more convoluted alphanumeric combinations can protect full of cunning hackers and cybercriminals.
technological Las seek alternatives. Yahoo already announced in October to passwords on your email service, and it seems that Google has now decided to join the trend.
According to Android Police website, the Internet giant is testing a handful a new user authentication system, quite similar, so little is known about him, which Yahoo wants to use.
is to configure the smartphone so that it is linked to your Google account so that, whenever you log in from another device, instead of entering a password is necessary to validate the action from your mobile phone.
This does not exclude anyone who wishes to continue using his password, but once it is on this mechanism Chances are that Google no longer ask.
The system remembers, too, some mobile banking applications that are already configured so that each time we go to do some kind of online transaction we must validate our smartphone .
The news has jumped from Rohit shared by Paul, one of the users who are part of the experiment, and Google has completed confirming later with the following message screenshots: “We’ve invited a small group of people (users of both Android and iOS) to help us to try a new way to log into their Google accounts, no password needed. ‘Pizza’, ‘password’ and ’123456′. Your days are numbered “
system announced in October that Yahoo is very similar: once the user accesses the mail service, enter your user name and click on continue and then, instead of requesting your password, Yahoo Mail sends an alert to the account associated with smartphone. Upon acceptance of the application in mobile, it will automatically access the inbox.
Dylan Casey, vice president of product of the firm, he said then that the passwords were dead.
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