Pushing passkeys forward: Microsoft’s latest updates for simpler, safer sign-ins

Happy World Passkey Day! As the world shifts from passwords to passkeys, we’re excited to join the FIDO Alliance in leaving “World Password Day” behind to celebrate the very first “World Passkey Day.” To commemorate this renaming, Microsoft and dozens of other organizations have taken the Passkey...

Pushing passkeys forward: Microsoft’s latest updates for simpler, safer sign-ins

Happy World Passkey Day! As the world shifts from passwords to passkeys, we’re excited to join the FIDO Alliance in leaving “World Password Day” behind to celebrate the very first “World Passkey Day.” To commemorate this renaming, Microsoft and dozens of other organizations have taken the Passkey...

Mozilla Firefox < 136.0

The version of Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 136.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2025-14 advisory. - Malicious pages could use Firefox for Android to pass FIDO: links to the OS and trigger the hybrid passkey transport. ...

Mozilla Firefox < 136.0

The version of Firefox installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 136.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2025-14 advisory. - Malicious pages could use Firefox for Android to pass FIDO: links to the OS and trigger the hybrid passkey...

FIDO Alliance Drafts New Protocol to Simplify Passkey Transfers Across Different Platforms

The FIDO Alliance said it's working to make passkeys and other credentials more easier to export across different providers and improve credential provider interoperability, as more than 12 billion online accounts become accessible with the passwordless sign-in method. To that end, the alliance...

SUSE CVE-2021-37577

Bluetooth LE and BR/EDR Secure Connections pairing and Secure Simple Pairing using the Passkey entry protocol in Bluetooth Core Specifications 2.1 through 5.3 may permit an unauthenticated man-in-the-middle attacker to identify the Passkey used during pairing by reflection of a crafted public key...

CVE-2021-37577

Bluetooth LE and BR/EDR Secure Connections pairing and Secure Simple Pairing using the Passkey entry protocol in Bluetooth Core Specifications 2.1 through 5.3 may permit an unauthenticated man-in-the-middle attacker to identify the Passkey used during pairing by reflection of a crafted public key...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-37577

Bluetooth LE and BR/EDR Secure Connections pairing and Secure Simple Pairing using the Passkey entry protocol in Bluetooth Core Specifications 2.1 through 5.3 may permit an unauthenticated man-in-the-middle attacker to identify the Passkey used during pairing by reflection of a crafted public key...

CVE-2021-37577

Bluetooth LE and BR/EDR Secure Connections pairing and Secure Simple Pairing using the Passkey entry protocol in Bluetooth Core Specifications 2.1 through 5.3 may permit an unauthenticated man-in-the-middle attacker to identify the Passkey used during pairing by reflection of a crafted public key...

CVE-2021-37577

Bluetooth LE and BR/EDR Secure Connections pairing and Secure Simple Pairing using the Passkey entry protocol in Bluetooth Core Specifications 2.1 through 5.3 may permit an unauthenticated man-in-the-middle attacker to identify the Passkey used during pairing by reflection of a crafted public key...

PT-2024-10983 · Unknown · Bluetooth Core Specification

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Bluetooth Core Specifications versions 2.1 through 5.3 Description: The issue concerns Bluetooth LE and BR/EDR Secure Connections pairing and Secure Simple Pairing using the Passkey entry protocol. It may allow an unauthenticated...

Google Is Adding Passkey Support for Its Most Vulnerable Users

Google is bringing the password-killing “passkey” tech to its Advanced Protection Program users more than a year after rolling them out broadly...

New Windows 11 features strengthen security to address evolving cyberthreat landscape

Ahead of the Microsoft Build 2024 conference, we announced a new class of Windows computers, Copilot+ PC. Alongside this exciting new class of PCs, we are introducing important security features and updates that make Windows 11 more secure for users and organizations and give developers the tools...

sssd security and bug fix update

An update is available for sssd. This update affects Rocky Linux 9. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The System Security Services Daemon SSSD service provides a set of daemons to...

RLSA-2024:2571 Moderate: sssd security and bug fix update

The System Security Services Daemon SSSD service provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directories and authentication mechanisms. It also provides the Name Service Switch NSS and the Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM interfaces toward the system, and a pluggable back-end system ...

Google Simplifies 2-Factor Authentication Setup (It's More Important Than Ever)

Google on Monday announced that it's simplifying the process of enabling two-factor authentication 2FA for users with personal and Workspace accounts. Also called 2-Step Verification 2SV, it aims to add an extra layer of security to users' accounts to prevent takeover attacks in case the password...

sssd security and bug fix update

2.9.4-6.0.1 - Restore default debug level for ssscache Orabug: 32810448 2.9.4-6 - Resolves: RHEL-27209 - Race condition during authorization leads to GPO policies functioning inconsistently rhel-9.4.0 2.9.4-5 - Resolves: RHEL-28161 - Passkey cannot fall back to password 2.9.4-4 - Resolves:...

You get a passkey, you get a passkey, everyone should get a passkey

Microsoft is rolling out passkey support for all consumer accounts. Passkeys are a very secure replacement for passwords that cant be cracked, guessed or phished, and let you log in easily, without having to type a password every time. After enabling them in Windows 11 last year, Microsoft accoun...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: sssd security and bug fix update

An update for sssd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the C...

Moderate: sssd security and bug fix update

The System Security Services Daemon SSSD service provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directories and authentication mechanisms. It also provides the Name Service Switch NSS and the Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM interfaces toward the system, and a pluggable back-end system ...