Insecurity experts at Blackwing Intelligence have published an extensive document showing how they had managed to work around some popular fingerprint sensors used in Windows PCs. Security boffin ...

Since Windows 10 introduced Windows Hello back in 2015, most Windows laptops and tablets have shipped with some kind of biometric authentication device installed. Sometimes that means a face- or ...

A growing number of Windows laptops feature fingerprint sensors with support for Microsoft’s Windows Hello technology. The idea is to let users login quickly by tapping a finger against the sensor ...

Security researchers bypassed Windows Hello fingerprint authentication on Dell Inspiron, Lenovo ThinkPad, and Microsoft Surface Pro X laptops in attacks exploiting security flaws found in the embedded ...

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 ...

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 ...

A group of researchers have proven that Microsoft's Windows Hello fingerprint authentication isn't as strong as the company might have thought. This isn't the first time that we've seen Windows ...

A lot of users reported that they were unable to set up Windows Hello’s Fingerprint. The Fingerprint sensor fails to recognize the fingerprint, even though it has already been registered. Due to this, ...

In brief: Microsoft and other tech giants are encouraging a general pivot toward biometrics – generally considered more secure than typical passwords. However, research has repeatedly shown that ...

While Windows laptop users like to think they have their own version of Touch ID, it appears not to offer the same level of security. The Windows Hello fingerprint authentication system on the top ...