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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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    Intercede MyID Authenticate: FIDO Passkeys for Windows 10/11 Logon, VPNs and Entra Apps

    Intercede, a UK identity company, has launched MyID Authenticate. It is a FIDO passkey platform meant to cover the Windows lock screen, federated cloud apps and RADIUS-based VPNs from one server. Many passkey projects stall in exactly these places once you move past a few web apps. The company...
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    Passkeys, Password Managers and Passphrases: Simple Strong Password Security

    PCWorld senior editor Alaina Yee argues that the better you understand password security, the simpler your approach should become. "Simple" doesn't mean short or guessable. It means easier to remember and easier to use, without giving up strength. Her argument rests on passkeys, password...
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    CoreView Intelligence Labs Launches as Microsoft 365 Survey Flags Admin MFA Gaps

    CoreView has opened a new research arm, Intelligence Labs, and aimed it at a familiar IT problem: teams that think their Microsoft 365 tenant is in good shape and haven't checked. The launch makes for a useful reality check on tenant security. It is a vendor initiative, though. It is not a...
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    Password Manager Checklist: Test Autofill, Recovery and Export Before You Commit

    Most people pick a password manager by comparing encryption claims. That tells you less than you'd expect. Once a few products clear the basic security bar (strong encryption, zero-knowledge design, audits, a decent track record), the useful differences are practical. Does autofill work on your...
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    Microsoft Entra B2B Passkeys for Guest MFA: October 2026 Rollout and SMS Retirement Impact

    Guest accounts have been a weak spot in Microsoft Entra ID for years. An organisation could require phishing-resistant MFA from its own staff, but a contractor or partner signing in to its tenant had to fall back on weaker methods. Microsoft is now closing that gap. Under Microsoft 365 roadmap...
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    Microsoft Entra Browser Authentication: Enable Federated IdP Passkeys on Android, iOS and macOS

    Microsoft has moved a common federated sign-in problem out of embedded app screens and into the phone's real browser. Some organizations sign users into Microsoft 365 through an external identity provider (IdP) over WS-Fed or SAML 2.0. Those users can now bring their IdP-issued passkeys, FIDO2...
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    Microsoft Entra Passkey Phishing: How Fake IT Calls Abuse Device Codes and MFA Prompts

    Your phone rings. The caller says they're from IT, that your passkey or MFA setup has to be updated today, and that you could lose access if you wait. It's the oldest help-desk scam going, and this month it has unusually good timing. Microsoft Entra ID started pushing real passkey registration...
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    Microsoft Account Passkey Errors: Fix Bluetooth, PIN and Stale Keys

    If your Microsoft account passkey stops working, the fix depends on the error you see. Microsoft's support guidance covers a deleted or invalidated passkey, a phone that can't reach the PC over Bluetooth, a device with no screen lock, and older operating systems or browsers. Each of those...
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    CoreView Intelligence Labs Launches Entra Passkey Guidance

    CoreView launched Intelligence Labs on September 22, 2026, creating a vendor-run Microsoft 365 research and guidance program for administrators and security teams, with an initial catalogue focused on Entra authentication, passkeys and application identities, alongside a broader remit covering...
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    Microsoft Entra ID Retires SMS and Voice Delivery in 2027

    Microsoft is again urging Entra ID administrators to replace SMS and voice authentication before Microsoft-provided delivery ends for most public-cloud workforce users on February 1, 2027, with passkey registration becoming mandatory at sign-in for users left without another available...
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    Microsoft Entra MFA: Security Defaults vs Conditional Access

    Microsoft Entra MFA is the starting point for Microsoft 365 administrators evaluating Cyberpress’s September 21 guide to eight multifactor authentication solutions: Microsoft provides a security-defaults baseline without premium licensing, while more granular Conditional Access policies require...
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    Security Copilot: Avanade Reports 70–80% Faster Identity Cases

    Avanade reports that it reduced average identity-incident resolution time by approximately 70–80% after embedding Microsoft Security Copilot and Microsoft Entra into daily investigations. For enterprise identity teams, the useful finding is how it achieved those gains: engineers combined...
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    GOV.UK One Login Passkeys: What Windows Users Need to Know

    GOV.UK One Login’s move toward passkeys should not be read as a switch that removes passwords from citizens’ accounts. The available user guidance describes passkeys as an additional, optional way to sign in, while retaining password-and-security-code routes when a passkey is unavailable. For...
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    Passkey Lures Target Cloud Accounts, Not Passkeys

    Microsoft’s latest account of cloud intrusions is easy to misread from its passkey-themed framing. The important finding is not that FIDO2 passkeys have been bypassed by a fake website. Rather, attackers used the idea of a passkey, MFA, or SSO update to create urgency, steer employees into...
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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...