Google Acquires SlickLogin to use Sound to Secure Accounts

A small Israeli start-up company, SlickLogin, has been acquired by Google in a multimillion-dollar acquisition. The company has not yet released a commercial product but develops software that combines secure login processes with sound.

When a user logs in, the website generates a high-frequency tone through the computer speaker which is picked up and returned by the user’s smartphone. This verifies the login, adding a much easier way to verify a username and password and increasing the levels of security. The technology could be used instead of traditional two-factor authentication methods such as answering a phone call, but could even replace passwords altogether.

In a statement, the company announced that ‘the SlickLogin team is joining Google, a company that shares our core beliefs that logging in should be easy instead of frustrating, and authentication should be effective without getting in the way’