{"id":275553,"date":"2018-09-14T09:54:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T07:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=275553"},"modified":"2018-09-14T09:56:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T07:56:01","slug":"us-networks-launch-project-verify-to-replace-password-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/275553-us-networks-launch-project-verify-to-replace-password-use.html","title":{"rendered":"US networks launch Project Verify to replace password use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon have launched\u00a0Project Verify, which is aimed at authenticating user logins on their smartphones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/09\/13\/project-verify-passwords-att-verizon-sprint-tmobile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Engadget<\/strong><\/a> reported that the\u00a0single sign-on service will replace the need for a\u00a0password manager, and works by confirming a user&#8217;s identity using certain elements.<\/p>\n<p>These include their\u00a0phone number, SIM card information, type of phone account, and IP address.<\/p>\n<p>The Project Verify app will then let users\u00a0log in to services that have enabled the feature, and can also be used for two-factor authentication purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The video below provides an overview of Project Verify &#8211; and how it uses a user&#8217;s &#8220;online identity&#8221; to replace the need to submit passwords to sites.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RNjshhOHGPY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/275545-huge-demand-for-512gb-samsung-galaxy-note-9.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Huge demand for 512GB Samsung Galaxy Note 9<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&#038;T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon have launched\u00a0Project Verify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":187163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[20179,53877],"class_list":["post-275553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-password","tag-project-verify"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275555,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275553\/revisions\/275555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}