The FIDO Alliance and W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) are separate standards organizations comprised of dozens of member companies in common, including payment card networks, chip card manufacturers, global acquirers, multinational card issuers, high-tech companies, and more. They are jointly promoting a new web authentication security standard called WebAuthn aimed at denying hackers opportunities for phishing and man-in-the-middle and replay attacks, which can lead to account takeovers and data breaches. WebAuthn is based on an API developed by the FIDO Alliance and submitted to W3C, wher...