{"id":24647,"date":"2016-06-07T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grapevinemsp.com\/2016\/06\/07\/microsoft-is-putting-a-stop-to-your-bad-passwords\/"},"modified":"2016-06-07T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T15:00:00","slug":"microsoft-is-putting-a-stop-to-your-bad-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grapevinemsp.com\/microsoft-is-putting-a-stop-to-your-bad-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Is Putting A Stop To Your Bad Passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5597\" src=\"https:\/\/sitesdev.net\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/microsft_is_putting_a_stop_to_your_bad_passwords.jpg\" alt=\"microsft_is_putting_a_stop_to_your_bad_passwords\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>Most of us (and you know who you are) tend to be not-very-good when it comes to creating robust, secure passwords. If you\u2019ve ever used your significant other\u2019s birthday, your birthday, the word \u201cpassword,\u201d or the numbers \u201c123456,\u201d then you\u2019re not alone. Millions of other people do too, and Microsoft is taking steps to help make passwords safer by banning some of the more commonly used awful ones. While they may not know your birthday, they do have access to data on millions of leaked passwords, and using that data, they\u2019ve compiled a list of particularly weak ones that they\u2019re simply not allowing to be used any further, on any Microsoft product.<\/p>\n<p>Hackers use much of the same data to build tables that assist their attacks, so Microsoft is essentially taking a page from the Hackers\u2019 own playbook and trying to use it against them. By preventing the use of any passwords currently on the hackers\u2019 \u201chot list,\u201d they hope to make all their products more secure. Note that this \u201cbanned weak password list\u201d is in addition to the minimum length and character requirements already in place on Microsoft products. While you won\u2019t see any outward differences in the appearance or functionality of these applications, if you try to set a password on the list, you\u2019ll simply be prompted to try again.<\/p>\n<p>A bit heavy-handed? Perhaps, but it is an effective way to help users help themselves and bolster the overall level of security online. The banned list is actually already in place and currently being used on Outlook, Xbox and Xbox live, OneDrive and a variety of other services, and will soon be expanded to include Microsoft\u2019s Azure AD login system. Other companies will probably adopt a similar posture in the months ahead, or, as Google is doing with their Android OS, moving away from passwords entirely, and adopting the \u201cTrust API\u201d methodology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us (and you know who you are) tend to be not-very-good when it comes to creating robust, secure passwords. If you\u2019ve ever used your significant other\u2019s birthday, your birthday, the word \u201cpassword,\u201d or the numbers \u201c123456,\u201d then you\u2019re not alone. 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