Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Security researchers have found flaws in the way laptop manufacturers are implementing fingerprint authentication ...

Update 5/20: Microsoft now considers these authentication problems to be resolved, having released “out-of-band” updates on May 19, as described here. Microsoft this week acknowledged possible ...

LAN Manager Authentication Level lets you set the authentication protocol for network logons. You can change the LAN Manager authentication level using the Local Group Policy Editor and the Registry ...

A fix introduced into Windows last month to close a weakness in Kerberos authentication is causing logon failures for some Windows Hello for Business (WHfB) users, Microsoft has warned. In theory, the ...

Microsoft is investigating a new known issue causing enterprise domain controllers to experience Kerberos authentication problems after installing security updates released to address CVE-2020-17049 ...

The default settings for Windows 10 strongly encourage you to sign in with a Microsoft account. Although it's easy enough to switch to a local account, there are good reasons for connecting that ...

Microsoft Edge now supports the Web Authentication specification for password-free logins. Support actually appeared in Build 17723 for Windows Insider Fast Ring participants and Build 18204 in the ...

Authentication issues in Windows Server after April updates Logon failures for WHfB and Device Public Key Authentication Workaround available, Microsoft working on permanent fix for impacted Windows ...

Increasingly, whether due to regulatory requirements or a basic recognition that static passwords just don’t provide adequate security, organizations are ...