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Passkeys are a recurring topic on WindowsForum.com, with recent discussions centering on Microsoft's push to move Entra ID users away from SMS and voice MFA toward passkey registration, including a September 1, 2026, automatic enrollment campaign and a February 1, 2027, retirement of Microsoft-delivered telecom for those methods. Security coverage includes a fixed Windows Event Logging Service flaw tied to a Pass-the-Passkey replay chain, while a separate claim about spoofable Windows passkey dialogs remains unverified. Enterprise features like Microsoft Edge passkey sync for work profiles and the broader implications for password managers and account recovery are also examined, alongside Google's related passkey and selfie video sign-in developments.
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    Windows XP at 25: The Risks Behind Retro Tech Choices

    Windows XP’s 25th release-to-manufacturing anniversary, a connected Casio digital watch, and a cheap paper password book can seem like unrelated nostalgia. They are better understood as a prompt to separate enduring design virtues from wishful thinking. Simplicity, low power use and a physical...
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    Five Billion Passkeys: Why Passwords Still Persist

    Five billion is a striking number, but it does not mean five billion people have abandoned passwords—or even that the figure can be independently audited as a worldwide census. It is an estimate from the FIDO Alliance, derived from publicly available information alongside its own deployment...
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    Entra ID SMS and Voice MFA Retire February 1, 2027

    Microsoft Entra ID tenants that still depend on Microsoft-delivered SMS codes or voice calls for MFA have a firm migration deadline: February 1, 2027. From that date, Microsoft will retire its own telecom delivery for those methods in the public cloud, and a user whose only available MFA option...
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    CVE-2026-34348 Fixed; Windows Passkey Spoofing Unverified

    Microsoft has fixed the Windows Event Logging Service flaw behind the more serious Pass-the-Passkey replay chain, but the separate claim that Windows passkey dialogs can be convincingly spoofed remains publicly unverified beyond a single report — and Microsoft has not issued a CVE, advisory, or...
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    Microsoft Password Manager: Best for Edge-Only Households

    PCWorld’s latest Safe Mode newsletter gets the central password problem right: reusing a familiar password is the kind of convenience that turns one company’s breach into a login attempt against a person’s email, bank, shopping, gaming, and work accounts. The remedy it recommends—letting a...
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    Entra ID Retires SMS MFA Feb. 1, Prompts Passkeys Sept. 1

    Microsoft Entra ID administrators now have less than four weeks to prevent Microsoft from automatically turning on passkey registration prompts for users who still rely on SMS or voice MFA. Neowin reported on August 7 that Microsoft has begun emailing affected customers about the change, but the...
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    Microsoft Edge Passkey Sync Launches for Enterprise Users

    Microsoft has marked Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 561652, “Microsoft Edge: Passkey Sync for Enterprise Users,” as launched for worldwide standard multi-tenant tenants, with general availability dated July 2026. The practical change is that a passkey created in a signed-in work profile in Edge can...
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    Microsoft Edge 151: Translator Stops Working on Edge 135 and Earlier

    Microsoft Edge 151.0.4129.59 is now available in the Beta channel, delivering bug and performance fixes while carrying forward a consequential set of changes for managed Windows environments: clipboard-driven address-bar suggestions, enterprise passkey sync, the retirement of Edge Drop, and a...
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    Google System Updates Add Pixel Watch Express Pay, Android TV Passkeys — Megathread

    Google’s July 2026 Google System Updates are not a single Android firmware release, but they may still affect the day-to-day experience on phones, tablets, Wear OS watches, Google TV devices, Android Auto systems, and Chrome OS hardware. The month’s changes range from more practical Pixel Watch...
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    Google Selfie Video Sign-In: Why Passkeys Should Come First

    Google has made a striking change to account recovery: eligible users can now enroll a selfie video as a backup path into a Google Account. The concept is simple—record a short guided video while turning your head, then submit a new live video later if you are locked out. Google compares the new...
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    CVE-2026-34348: Windows 11 Fixes Passkey Data Exposure

    Passkeys are supposed to end the era of stolen passwords, phishing kits, and credential stuffing—yet newly disclosed Pass-the-Passkey research shows that a flawed implementation can still turn a modern credential into something an attacker may reuse. The important distinction is not that passkey...
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    Windows 11 Passkeys: Why Recovery and QR Codes Slow Adoption

    Passkeys were supposed to make passwords obsolete, yet most people still reach for a password manager, an SMS code, or an old-fashioned recovery link when it is time to sign in. The reason is not that the underlying technology has failed. Passkeys solve major security problems that passwords...
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    Microsoft Edge Password Manager: Set Up Sync, Passkeys and Autofill

    Microsoft Edge’s password manager has become easier to use in daily browsing, but harder to find if you are following an older guide. The controls once associated with Wallet, Microsoft Authenticator autofill, or legacy Edge settings now live under Passwords and autofill and Microsoft Password...
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    Microsoft Entra Retires SMS MFA February 1, 2027—Passkeys Take Over

    Microsoft is setting a hard deadline for one of the biggest authentication changes in Microsoft Entra ID: on February 1, 2027, Microsoft-provided SMS text messages and voice calls for multifactor authentication will be retired, while passkeys become the default path for users still relying on...
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    Microsoft Entra SMS MFA Ends February 1, 2027 — Migrate to Passkeys

    Microsoft Entra administrators should begin migrating SMS and voice MFA users now, treat the August 1, 2026 opt-out as limited transition cover, and reserve customer-managed telecom for the genuinely narrow cases where phone delivery must remain. On September 1, 2026, Microsoft will...
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    Microsoft Entra ID SMS and Voice MFA Retire February 1, 2027

    Microsoft Entra ID administrators should treat the February 1, 2027 SMS and voice retirement as a credential-placement decision, not merely a registration-campaign change. Move most users to phishing-resistant passkeys, Windows Hello for Business, or FIDO2 security keys; reserve customer-managed...
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    Pink Targets Microsoft 365 Passkey Enrollment in Phone-Led Takeovers

    Additional coverage of this story: Pink Targets Microsoft 365 Passkey Enrollment in Phone-Led Takeovers BleepingComputer emphasizes fake Microsoft 365 sign-in pages used during live phone calls to capture passwords and enable cloud-data theft and extortion alongside attacker-controlled passkey...
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    O-UNC-066 Pink Vishing Hits Microsoft Entra Passkey Enrollment

    Okta says a threat cluster it tracks as O-UNC-066, also known to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 as Pink, has since at least April 2026 used vishing to trick Microsoft 365 users into enrolling attacker-controlled Microsoft Entra passkeys. The campaign is not a break in passkey cryptography; it is a...
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    Microsoft 365 Passkeys: Use Device-Bound for Admins, Sync for Users

    Microsoft 365 tenants should push passkeys now in staged rings, using device-bound passkeys for administrators and highly privileged users, synced passkeys for lower-risk users, and hardened recovery controls across the tenant before broad enrollment campaigns reach the general workforce. That...
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    ExpressKeys Passkeys Update (2026): Sharing, Imports, Recovery & Cure53 Audit

    ExpressVPN announced on July 2, 2026, that ExpressKeys, its standalone password manager for mobile apps and browser extensions, now supports passkeys, secure item sharing, direct credential imports, card scanning, account recovery improvements, and a fresh independent security audit by Cure53...