When is an issue not an issue? When it's intentional Microsoft accidentally broke several things in the October 2025 Windows Update, but smart card authentication was not one of them. That was ...

After installing the update previews from late September or the security updates from October in Windows, some unexpected side effects may occur. Microsoft reports failed authentication with smart ...

Does anybody know of a tool you could install (or a setting?) that would put a warning up on the Windows 7 Lock Screen if you have a smart card installed in the machine while it is locked?

Microsoft has released an out of band non-security update to fix a bug in some business printers and scanners that use a smart card for authentication. The update, KB5005394, addresses an issue in ...

To prevent users from using smart cards on BitLocker removable drives, follow these steps: Following that, you need to create two REG_DWORD values. For that, right-click on FVE > New > DWORD (32-bit) ...

The October Patch Day security updates for Windows can cause Bitlocker recovery to start. The Windows security updates that ...

A variant of the Sykipot Trojan Horse hijacks U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) smart cards in order to access restricted resources. “We recently discovered a variant of Sykipot with some new, ...

A variant of the Sykipot Trojan Horse hijacks U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) smart cards in order to access restricted resources. “We recently discovered a variant of Sykipot with some new, ...