#windows-hello — Public Fediverse posts

🆕Koniec z wpisywaniem haseł? Dell MS526C stawia na biometrykę
➡️https://rootblog.pl/nowa-myszka-dell-ms526c-z-czytnikiem-linii-papilarnych/

#Dell #DellMS526C #WindowsHello

Bitwarden lets Windows 11 users sign in with passkeys instead of passwords

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/03/bitwarden-passkeys-windows-11-login/

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/02/14/microsoft-blocks-credential-autofill-windows-hello-flaw-cve-2026-20804-xcxwbn/

Microsoft Blocks Credential Autofill to Fix Windows Hello Flaw

#Microsoft #Windows11 #February2026PatchTuesday #Cybersecurity #Authentication #WindowsHello #Biometrics #RemoteDesktop

ich finde, Internetdienste bei denen ein Schaden entstehen kann (Kommunikation, Finanzen, Waren, Dienstleister) sollten IMMER Hauptschlüssel und physische Passkeys anbieten.

Es kann im Zeitalter von Big Data doch nicht sein, dass man mich zur Passwortwiederherstellung nach dem Geburtsnamen meines ersten Autos/Meerschweinchens/Mutter fragt! Bei Schantal vom Nagelstudio steht das alles vollständig auf Facebook!

#fido2 #passkey #windowshello

#Passkeys are everywhere nowadays
#windowshello #fido2 #androidpasskeys #token2

I myself switch to passkeys for any supported service. Have a look here if your services are supported: https://www.passkeys.io/who-supports-passkeys

Understanding why they're more secure and why they are able to be used in so many different shapes is not as easy.

Computerphile just released a greate video about the technology and the authentic flow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYfiOnufBSk

In some ways #windows11 feels like #linux 10 years ago. Multi-monitor support is iffy but essentially there, language and locale settings are a !total! absolute MESS!! The OS forces weird search stuff on you. PIM suite integragtion is kind of there, kind of not. Workspaces exist, but are totally clunky to use. And for something extra to complain about: #windowshello is convenient, but it just does radom stuff. Sometimes the additional factors work, sometimes they don't. Sometimes I can't even log in and have to rebootm🤷‍♀️ The difference is, Windows is a comercial product. So much for "comercial software has a higher quality insensitive".

#opensource #foss

Wait a second. This PC is missing the "Facial Recognition (Windows Hello)" optional component, yet Windows Hello face unlock is working when I log onto Windows 🤔. This system is running #Windows11 24H2.

#WindowsHello #biometrics #24H2

Experten demonstrieren auf der #BlackHat-Konferenz kritische Lücke in #WindowsHello: Mit Admin-Rechten können Angreifer beliebige biometrische Daten einschleusen und sich mit fremden Gesichtern anmelden. https://winfuture.de/news,152801.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

🎉 It’s here: Cryptomator Desktop 1.17.0 is out now!

This update brings exciting new features and critical fixes — including more compatibility, more convenience, and more security. 💪

🔐 Curious what’s new? Head over to our blog for the full breakdown:
👉 https://cryptomator.org/blog/2025/06/25/desktop-1.17.0/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=desktop-1.17.0

#Cryptomator #Update #Encryption #OpenSource #Privacy #WindowsHello #Cybersecurity

Gesichtserkennung: Workaround für deaktiviertes Windows Hello im Dunkeln https://www.computerbase.de/news/betriebssysteme/gesichtserkennung-workaround-fuer-deaktiviertes-windows-hello-im-dunkeln.93173/ #WindowsHello

Per #Windows-#Update hat #Microsoft #WindowsHello eigenen Angaben zufolge sicherer gemacht. Leider funktioniert die #Gesichtserkennung dadurch aber nur noch bei guten Lichtverhältnissen. https://winfuture.de/news,151602.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

🚀 Cryptomator 1.17.0 Beta is here!

Want to be among the first to try out new features? The beta version of Cryptomator 1.17.0 is now available for testing! 🎉

✅ Windows Hello support
✅ ARM64 support for Windows (experimental)
✅ Double-click vault.cryptomator to unlock

Give the beta a try and help us make Cryptomator even better with your feedback! 🧪
👉 Try it now: https://github.com/cryptomator/cryptomator/releases/tag/1.17.0-beta1

#Cryptomator #BetaTest #OpenSource #Privacy #Encryption #WindowsHello #ARM64 #Cybersecurity

https://www.walknews.com/915957/ Windows 11の次期セキュリティ機能「管理者保護」でユーザー・開発者が注意するべきこと – 窓の杜 #Science #Science&Technology #Technology #UAC #Windows #WindowsHello #システム #システム・ファイル #セキュリティ #テクノロジー #プログラミング #科学 #科学＆テクノロジー #管理者保護

Microsoft Makes New Consumer Accounts Passwordless by Default

#Microsoft #Passkeys #Passwordless #Cybersecurity #Authentication #Security #WorldPasskeyDay #WindowsHello #MicrosoftAccount #TechNews

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/05/02/microsoft-makes-new-consumer-accounts-passwordless-by-default-xcxwbn/

Microsoft has moved its Recall AI feature to the Windows 11 Release Preview Channel, advancing it despite known data filtering issues

#Windows11 #Microsoft #Recall #CopilotPlusPC #AI #Privacy #Cybersecurity #TPM #WindowsHello #DataSecurity

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/04/11/microsoft-advances-windows-recall-ai-to-release-preview-despite-lingering-concerns-xcxwbn/

𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐓𝐎 𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖 𝐏𝐈𝐍 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐓 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐒 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐎 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐁𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒

PIN is one of the login options in Windows Hello for Business. If a user forgets their PIN, they can reset it. Windows Hello for Business allows two types of PIN reset:
- Destructive PIN reset, which deletes everything in the Windows Hello for Business container. This is a forced reset, but it requires no additional configuration and works by default.
- Non-destructive PIN reset, which requires additional configuration but does not delete the existing Windows Hello for Business container and the keys stored in it.

📺 Watch my YouTube video bellow on how to configure it 👇 👇
https://youtu.be/XdHrajCf-Tk

#cswrld #videotutorial #pinreset #windowshello #whfb

Reading the docs on Credential Guard and Windows Hello ESS again, it seems that the secrets themselves are not protected by VBS at all. Credential Guard protects online secrets (SSO credentials), and ESS protects the channel between the sensor and OS as well as the the biometric template itself.

The WebAuthn secrets that is released based on the biometric sensor response seems _not_ to be protected by VBS, which is sad.

Can anyone confirm?
#windowshello #webauthn

🎥🔒 Ubuntu mit der Webcam entsperren?
Mit #howdy kein Problem! 👀✨

Die Linux-Alternative zu Windows Hello ermöglicht Gesichtserkennung zur Anmeldung. Schnell, praktisch und sicher. 🐧💻

https://www.onesystems.ch/blog/anmelden-ueber-die-webcam-unter-ubuntu-einrichten/

#Linux #Ubuntu #howdy #WindowsHello #FOSS

Windows 11 24H2: Windows Hello erhält neues Design und neue Funktionen https://www.computerbase.de/news/betriebssysteme/windows-11-24h2-windows-hello-erhaelt-neues-design-und-neue-funktionen.90174/ #Windows11 #windowshello

Windows 11’s new passkey design includes cloud syncing and 1Password integration.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/10/24266780/microsoft-windows-11-passkey-redesign-windows-hello

#Windows #Hello #WindowsHello #Microsoft #Passkeys #Tech #News #TechNews #AllThingsTech

#WindowsHello will soon offer users an option to sync their passkeys to their Microsoft account making them no longer device-bound

again, this changes the threat model for enterprises, if they care about such details. a device-bound passkey means the private key material exists no where else in the world. Cloud syncing of private keys is basically the same for TOTP private seeds -- those cloud providers, while encrypting the data at rest, do in fact have clear-text access to those secrets -- making them targets of social engineers, law enforcement, nation states and other hackers.

(only an end-to-end encryption cloud storage solution like Apple's Advanced Data Protection would protect synced passkeys)

HT @jesterchen

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2024/10/08/passkeys-on-windows-authenticate-seamlessly-with-passkey-providers/

#infosec #IAM #cybersecurity

Controversial Windows Recall AI Search Tool Returns With Proof-of-Presence Encryption, Data Isolation https://www.securityweek.com/microsofts-controversial-recall-returns-with-proof-of-presence-encryption-data-isolation-opt-in-model/ #ArtificialIntelligence #Privacy&Compliance #EndpointSecurity #ProofofPresence #WindowsRecall #WindowsHello #encryption #Microsoft #Featured

Controversial Windows Recall AI Search Tool Returns With Proof-of-Presence Encryption, Data Isolation https://www.securityweek.com/microsofts-controversial-recall-returns-with-proof-of-presence-encryption-data-isolation-opt-in-model/ #ArtificialIntelligence #Privacy&Compliance #EndpointSecurity #ProofofPresence #WindowsRecall #WindowsHello #encryption #Microsoft #Featured

One part of my laptop is now newer than the rest of it, which should mean I don’t have to spend quite as much time with two other parts of the computer. But should I feel that good about having to send a second computer from the same vendor back to the shop?

I spent a long time pretending that I wouldn’t need this level of tech support for the HP Spectre x360 I bought last August to replace a 2017-vintage Spectre x360 that had succumbed to an apparently fatal display failure after needing its own repair under warranty.

At first, the fingerprint sensor on this 2022 model only stopped working occasionally, and I could always fix it by opening Device Manager, deleting the sensor’s entry, and then telling this app to scan for “new” hardware. But that kind of Windows 95 workaround is no way to go through computing life in 2024, and it got increasingly annoying as the sensor failed increasingly often.

This laptop includes a Windows Hello-compatible camera that can recognize my face, but I found that a poor substitute for an unavailable fingerprint sensor. The camera would often take its own sweet time to wake up and identify me–especially irritating when I was trying to unlock 1Password to log into a site–leading me to resort to the keyboard to type in the laptop-specific passcode instead.

Two things led me to drop a pattern of denial that had persisted through multiple Windows reinstalls: the impending end of my warranty coverage and having two weeks at home in which I wouldn’t need the laptop. So as I had in 2018, I opened a chat window to HP tech support and was able to make my case without having to perform yet another reinstall of Windows–because the fingerprint sensor was kind enough to fail during the chat.

The rep’s response: “Looks like this could be a hardware issue.”

HP worked impressively fast, dispatching a box to my house via FedEx two-day air in a day. After I wiped my data from the laptop, packed it up and dropped it off in the box at a FedEx shipping facility on a Tuesday evening, I got a confirmation from HP Thursday afternoon that the laptop had arrived.

Wednesday night’s e-mail from HP: “Your HP product has been repaired and is now on its way.”

It would have arrived Saturday, but of course I was no at home for that signature-required delivery. Instead, I got to unpack the returned laptop Monday morning. The receipt in the box listed “Replaced Parts” as “Finger Print Reader” and “Repair Actions” as “Replaced Part” and “Performed Extensive Testing.” 

So far, everything seems fine with the restored laptop–as in, I hope it doesn’t go sideways once I’m on the other side of the Atlantic for the IFA tech trade show in Berlin next week. But two good customer-support saves can’t override the problem of my needing customer support in the first place.

Fortunately, I shoudn’t have to make that value judgment anytime soon. Nor do I want to: The most interesting development in Windows computing, Qualcomm delivering Snapdragon X efficiency-optimized processors that can compete with Apple’s M-series Apple Silicon processors, has yet to yield convertible laptops with screens like those on my last two HPs that I can rotate all the way around to turn the computer into a somewhat hefty tablet.

Among the current selection of Snapdragon X machines, Microsoft’s Surface Pro offers some of that two-in-one utility with a detachable screen that you can prop up with a kickstand. But that stand slides off your lap far too easily–a design I’ve found unappealing since first trying a Surface computer 12 years ago.

(Apple, meanwhile, still doesn’t think people need any such thing. Or even a touchscreen in a laptop.)

Bring me a Snapdragon X laptop with a 360-degree screen that also lets me fold the device into a tent shape that eases economy-class movie viewing, and I’ll be ready to buy. Except if this machine comes from HP, in which case I’ll have to think about that for a little longer.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/08/30/a-touchy-situation-with-an-hp-laptop-hopefully-resolved/

#1Password #2In1Laptop #ARM #biometric #fingerprintSensor #HewlettPackard #HPFingerprintSensor #HPSpectreX360 #HPTechSupport #HPWarranty #laptopSecurity #passwordManager #QualcommSnapdragonXElite #WindowsHello

Proton Pass führt biometrische Anmeldung ein
Proton Pass, der Passwortmanager von Proton, bekannt für seine verschlüsselten E-Mail- und VPN-Dienste, hat die biometrische Anmeldung hinzugefügt. D
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/proton-pass-fuehrt-biometrische-anmeldung-ein/
#News #Tellerrand #BiometrischeAuthentifizierung #FormularAusfllhilfe #Identitten #Passwortmanager #Proton #ProtonPass #SicherheitsApp #Sicherheitstechnologie #SonNguyenKim #TouchID #Verschlsselung #WindowsHello

Create a Windows Hello login app with WinUI.

#windowsdev #winrt #winui #dotnet #csharp #xaml #windows #windowshello
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/develop/security/windows-hello-login

So, did #Microsoft just broke #WindowsHello Pin with this July 2024 #PatchTuesday? 🤔