{"id":954515,"date":"2025-08-13T09:20:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T03:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=954515"},"modified":"2025-08-13T09:31:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T04:01:24","slug":"passwords-under-threat-as-tech-giants-seek-tougher-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/13\/passwords-under-threat-as-tech-giants-seek-tougher-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Passwords under threat as tech giants seek tougher security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paris: Fingerprints, access keys and facial recognition are putting a new squeeze on passwords as the traditional computer security method &#8212; but also running into public hesitancy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The password era is ending,&#8221; two senior figures at Microsoft wrote in a July blog post.<\/p>\n<p>The tech giant has been building &#8220;more secure&#8221; alternatives to log in for years &#8212; and has since May been offering them by default to new users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris: Fingerprints, access keys and facial recognition are putting a new squeeze on passwords as the traditional computer security method &#8212; but also running into public hesitancy. &#8220;The password era is ending,&#8221; two senior figures at Microsoft wrote in a July blog post. The tech giant has been building &#8220;more secure&#8221; alternatives to log in for years &#8212; and has since May been offering them by default to new users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}