Microsoft accidentally broke several things in the October 2025 Windows Update, but smart card authentication was not one of them. That was intentionally broken, and the temporary workaround requires ...

Microsoft says the October 2025 Windows security updates are causing smart card authentication and certificate issues due to a change designed to strengthen the Windows Cryptographic Services. This ...

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

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 says the October 2025 Windows security updates are causing smart card authentication and certificate issues due to a change designed to strengthen the Windows Cryptographic Services.

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) ...

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, ...