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Black Hat Demo Shows Local Admins Hijacking Windows Hello Biometrics, Forcing Identity Reckoning
Security researchers from ERNW, Dr. Baptiste David and Tillmann Osswald, took the stage at Black Hat to demonstrate a practical, low-noise attack against Windows Hello for Business. Dubbed...
Live Hack Exposes Windows Hello Biometric Loophole—Researchers Say Disable It Now
A packed auditorium at Black Hat 2025 in Las Vegas watched in silence as security researcher Tillmann Osswald remotely enrolled his own face onto his colleague’s Windows Hello-protected...
Windows Hello Biometric Bypass: Researchers Swap Faces to Hijack PCs—Here’s How ESS Stops It
Two German researchers standing on the Black Hat stage just demonstrated how an attacker with local admin rights can swap their own facial biometrics into a stolen laptop’s Windows Hello...
Windows 11 Enhanced Sign-in Security (ESS) now locks credentials with TPM 2.0 and biometrics.
Unlocking Enhanced Sign-in Security (ESS) in Windows 11 Windows 11 continues to push the boundaries of security with its Enhanced Sign-in Security (ESS) feature, offering users robust protection...