Just over a week after a global problem with its multi-factor authentication (MFA) service plagued a number of users, another Microsoft MFA outage is impacting a number of customers. Many, but not all ...

New Active Authentication service on the Azure-based Active Directory uses phones to improve security for hosted apps such as Office 365 Microsoft is upping the security on Azure with Active ...

This is similar to taking a room key for a building and turning it into a skeleton key that works on every door in the building. A vulnerability in Microsoft’s Active Directory Federation Services ...

Microsoft is upping the security on Azure with Active Authentication, a new service now in preview which allows enterprises to secure access to hosted applications such as Office 365 with two-factor ...

More than three-quarters (78%) of organizations with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) currently do not employ multifactor authentication (MFA) for their user accounts, new telemetry from Microsoft's ...

A number of Microsoft Azure and Office 365 users have been unable to get into their accounts for most of the day on November 19. The problem: A multi-factor authentication issue which hit users ...

Hybrid cloud identity and access management services add complexity and opportunity for attackers to network authentication processes, as recently demonstrated for Azure AD. It’s been common knowledge ...

Microsoft this week announced that its Azure Active Directory Certificate-Based Authentication (CBA) scheme for "phishing-resistant" authentications is now commercially released and ready for use with ...

MFA prompt bombing enabled Cisco attackers to steal 2.8GB in 2022, exposing push MFA weaknesses and account takeover risks.

The latest move will enable MFA as the default security setting even for older Azure accounts. Microsoft is taking a more aggressive step to try to protect users of Azure Active Directory from account ...