Microsoft is pushing for more secure Windows authentication with new features for Kerberos that would eventually eliminate the use of the NTLM protocol. A challenge-response authentication protocol, NTLM (New Technology LAN Manager) is meant to provide authentication, integrity, and confidentiality, but NTLM is prone to relay attacks and passwords can be brute-forced easily using modern ..
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Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 4 with My recent feature on passkeys attracted significant interest, and a number of the 1,100+ comments raised questions about how the passkey system actually works and if it can be trusted. In response, I’ve put together this list of frequently asked questions to dispel a few myths ..
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 1 with By now, you’ve likely heard that passwordless Google accounts have finally arrived. The replacement for passwords is known as “passkeys.” There are many misconceptions about passkeys, both in terms of their usability and the security and privacy benefits they offer compared with current authentication methods. That’s ..
Getty Images reader comments 159 with 97 posters participating, including story author Share this story For more than a decade, we’ve been promised that a world without passwords is just around the corner, and yet year after year, this security nirvana proves out of reach. Now, for the first time, a workable form of passwordless ..
reader comments 82 with 55 posters participating, including story author Share this story For decades, the use of fingerprints to authenticate users to computers, networks, and restricted areas was (with a few notable exceptions) mostly limited to large and well-resourced organizations that used specialized and expensive equipment. That all changed in 2013 when Apple introduced ..
Enlarge (credit: followtheseinstructions) In a stroke of bad timing that would be comical if it weren’t so annoying, Microsoft’s multifactor authentication (MFA) system, used for Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics, has gone down for a second time this month, just hours after the company published its findings into a 14-hour outage on November 19. The ..
reader comments 47 Share this story Lenovo has fixed a high-severity vulnerability in a wide range of laptop models that allowed hackers with physical access to log in and then obtain users’ Windows login credentials and other sensitive data. The vulnerability resides in the Lenovo Fingerprint Manager Pro, which is typically installed on ThinkPad, ThinkCentre, ..