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Microsoft has removed a key obstacle facing organizations seeking to deploy phishing-resistant multifactor authentication (MFA) by enabling certificate-based authentication (CBA) in Azure Active ...

In password-based authentication, end-users confirm their identity using login credentials, commonly a unique username, and a secret password. These credentials allow the system to verify that the ...

Microsoft cited progress on enabling phishing-resistant authentications for organizations, in a Friday announcement. The announcement highlighted FIDO2 preview support for iOS and MacOS apps, ...

Corporate users with third-party, Windows-based authentication systems such as VPNs could face a difficult transition to Microsoft’s Vista because of an overhaul of the core Windows logon architecture ...

Do any of these situations describe your company? * You have a heterogeneous computing environment that includes a mix of Windows, Unix and Linux systems. * Because of disparate platforms, you are ...

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 ...

Microsoft added a new security feature to Windows 11 that lets admins block NTLM over SMB to prevent pass-the-hash, NTLM relay, or password-cracking attacks. This will modify the legacy approach where ...

Today’s credential-based attacks are much more sophisticated. Whether it’s advanced phishing techniques, credential stuffing, or even credentials compromised through social engineering or breaches of ...

Ok, I need to work out how to handle integrated security on our domain so that the application (ASP.NET 3.5 w/ LINQ) will know to look at the windows user credentials, then assess what permisions they ...