If you’re still using default passwords or easy-to-brute-force passwords, your days are numbered. Boing Boing reports:
Tired of dealing with hacked accounts, Microsoft is to delete a billion insecure passwords, forcing users to pick better ones.
The company now “blocks 7,000 attacks on passwords per second… almost double from a year ago.” It has also seen adversary-in-the-middle phishing attacks increase by 146% year over year.” All of which is bad news. But there’s good news to come, it says, “we’ve never had a better solution to these pervasive attacks: passkeys.”
Microsoft’s Sangeeta Ranjit would in fact like everyone to switch to passkeys.
Read more at BoingBoing.
