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Microsoft’s October security rollout made a deliberate, platform‑level change to how certificates propagated from smart cards are handled — and the change has immediate consequences for applications, middleware vendors, and administrators who still rely on legacy Cryptographic Service Provider...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-59505: a local Elevation of Privilege (EoP) in the Windows Smart Card subsystem that Microsoft classifies as a double‑free (CWE‑415) memory‑corruption bug; community trackers assign a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 (High) and report vendor-supplied...

Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday rollout cratered into an operational crisis for many Windows 11 users and administrators after the October 14 cumulative update (KB5066835) introduced multiple high‑impact regressions — most notably rendering USB keyboards and mice useless inside the Windows...

Microsoft’s October 2025 security updates have exposed a trade-off between improved cryptographic hygiene and immediate operational pain for organisations and users who still rely on legacy smart-card implementations — and the short-term fix Microsoft offers is a literal registry hack that...

Microsoft has confirmed two separate regressions introduced after the October 14, 2025 cumulative update KB5066835 for Windows 11 — a smart‑card / certificate authentication regression tied to a cryptography enforcement change, and a damaging Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) regression that...

Microsoft has published a fix and a temporary workaround for a smart‑card authentication regression introduced by October’s cumulative updates, but the repair requires a manual registry change that many users and administrators will find fiddly — and potentially risky — to apply. Background /...

Microsoft’s October cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5066835) created an urgent problem for many users and IT teams by rendering the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) non‑interactive: after installing the update, USB keyboards and mice stopped responding inside WinRE while continuing to...

Microsoft’s April 2025 Kerberos protections — delivered to close CVE‑2025‑26647 — introduced a new operational knob, AllowNtAuthPolicyBypass, that was intended to let administrators audit then enforce stricter certificate-based authentication behavior on domain controllers; the rollout fixed a...

When it comes to operating system updates, Windows users have grown accustomed to a cycle of new features, security patches, and bug fixes. The release of the Safe OS Dynamic Update for Windows 11, version 24H2, also known as KB5043355, is no different—except this time, there’s a refined focus...

I have smart card USB token, and when I need to enter password to sign in document with certificate, Windows security form only gives me PIN field to enter, I cant see the user name of certificate, which is really annoying. Is there a way to display user name of certificate when displaying PIN...

Hi, Today I did get a WHEA error, I have explained everything below regarding the error. What I’m wondering is; is this only due to a hardware issue? Or can it be software related? As the log state it says it’s because of the CPU. But I can’t see how the cpu can break now? It did not BSOD it did...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19645 to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. You can check out our Windows Insider Program documentation here, including a list of all the new features and updates released in builds so far. Not seeing any of the...

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Yesterday, when I got on my computer ( ASUS WINDOWS 8 - CORE: I5) java wanted an update. I usually update EVRYTHING so I decided "why not?" I clicked on the pop up from java and continued. You know the part where you have to put in an administrator password? Well, instead of that, there's a...

Microsoft released a number of security updates for the 8.1 preview, namely: Windows Store app instability after an app update in Windows 8.1 Preview Internet Explorer 11 Preview freezes or crashes while loading a webpage that contains widgets Smart card PIN disclosure after an...

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Let me give you a better description of the problem... I follow the instruction from the Gmalto instructions to install and configure Dell smart card USB Keyboard. This means I loaded the drivers for WudfUsbccidDrv and check Manager and it looks it recognizes the smart card and the smart card...