If you use Microsoft Authenticator to store your login information, it's time to take action. This month, Microsoft began deleting stored payment methods from the app, and as of Aug. 1, 2025, stored ...

If you use Microsoft Authenticator or know people who do, here's a good heads-up. Keeping with the plan to discontinue Authenticator's password functionality in a bid to transition to passkeys, the ...

Microsoft Authenticator to stop saving new passwords June 1. Update, May 4, 2025: This story, originally published May 2, has been updated with further information on the use of passkeys by Microsoft, ...

When registering Microsoft Authenticator as a two-factor authentication method, some users see Microsoft Authenticator Registration has timed out error. Let us see ...

Microsoft is updating its Authenticator app to be even more "phishing-resistant," Microsoft announced Tuesday. Organizations use Authenticator to implement multifactor authentication (MFA) on iOS and ...

Users of Microsoft apps are having a rough year. First, in May, the Windows maker shut down the popular VOIP calling app, Skype, for good. Microsoft said it was done so that the company could focus on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about cybersecurity, surveillance and privacy. Republished on May 31 with a new attack on Microsoft account ...

Microsoft ended support for password master in Edge on June 4, 2026, in favour of Windows Hello.

Microsoft cited progress on enabling phishing-resistant authentications for organizations, in a Friday announcement. The announcement highlighted FIDO2 preview support for iOS and MacOS apps, ...