So, my wife has an Asus laptop from a few years back that has an IR and web camera integrated and it has Windows Hello enabled so she or I can simply turn it on/wake it from sleep and it 'looks' at ...

Facial recognition on laptops has come a long way in the last decade, and Windows Hello is more secure than you may think.

A Windows security bug would allow an attacker to fool a USB camera used in the biometric facial-recognition aspect of the system. A vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows 10 password-free ...

Security researchers have shown how they were able to bypass Windows 10's Windows Hello biometric authentication with just a single infrared frame of the target. Researchers at security firm Cyber Ark ...

Biometric authentication is a key piece of the tech industry’s plans to make the world password-less. But a new method for duping Microsoft’s Windows Hello facial-recognition system shows that a ...

Two researchers recently discovered that anyone can bypass Windows Hello’s facial recognition in older versions of Windows 10. At the root of the issue are infrared cameras that don’t support Enhanced ...

Smartphones have been using biometric authentication like fingerprints and faces long before those became more common on laptops and even desktops. Microsoft's Windows Hello framework is its attempt ...

Windows Hello is an excellent feature. It lets Windows users use fingerprint, facial recognition, and other biometric details to login into Windows devices. Still ...

Yep, you can log in to your Windows laptop by looking at the webcam using Windows Hello. Here's how to set it up. Managing Editor Josh Goldman is a laptop expert and has been writing about and ...

Q: What’s Windows Hello, and should I be using it? A: If you’re like most computer users, getting into your PC involves typing in a password or maybe even a PIN. Windows Hello is akin to what most of ...