Microsoft has brought biometric sign-in to Windows 10 and 11 business and enterprise users with Windows Hello for Business. Here’s how it works and how to deploy it to your users. Microsoft is trying ...

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 ...

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 has officially deprecated NTLM authentication on Windows and Windows servers, stating that developers should transition to Kerberos or Negotiation authentication to prevent problems in the ...

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 ...

Microsoft says the April 2025 security updates are causing authentication issues on some Windows Server 2025 domain controllers. The list of impacted platforms includes Windows Server 2016, Windows ...

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 ...

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

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. SYSS tested Microsoft’s own Surface Pro 4 device running last year’s Windows 10 ...