Microsoft's Windows Hello biometric, PIN, and hardware authentication system is slowly growing in popularity, according to a new report from Microsoft. For those unaware, Windows Hello allows users to ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Just when you thought Microsoft couldn’t get things any worse ...

Microsoft’s Windows Hello face unlock feature no longer works in dark rooms, and it’s not a bug. Microsoft quietly made the change to Windows Hello in April, in order to fix a vulnerability with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. This story has been updated on August 59with a statement from ...

The premier sensors enabling Windows Hello fingerprint authentication are not as secure as manufacturers had hoped. Researchers have discovered security flaws in a number of fingerprint sensors used ...

Microsoft on World Password Day described passwordless milestones for a bunch of its products, per a Thursday announcement. The first Thursday of May has been deemed World Password Day. Its ...

Microsoft has announced UI improvements to the built-in passkey support in Windows 11. The new features will first be available to Windows Insiders in the coming months and, if everything goes right, ...

Researchers show how to circumvent Microsoft’s Windows Hello biometric authentication using a spoofed USB camera. LAS VEGAS – Microsoft Windows 10 biometric user authentication systems Windows Hello ...

Windows Hello, which is an all-in-one biometric authentication process baked into Windows 10, is getting enhancements in the May 2020 Update. With every Windows 10 feature update, Microsoft has tried ...

Biometric authentication is a key piece of the tech industry’s plans to make the world password-less. But a new method for duping Microsoft’s Windows Hello facial-recognition system shows that a ...