Abcdef: Microsoft forbids weak passwords

“Choose a password that is at least eight characters long, including uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and a special character.” For many users, these passwords for secure passwords tend to create an annoyed frown and stressful minutes in search of a password, Which the respective provider accepts. Some services have partially relaxed your preferences and allow the user not to meet all the requirements if they want to assign a password.


Microsoft: more security - but more work?


As a result, many users use passwords such as "abcdef", "qwertz", "123456", or simply "password" entries, such as these, regularly create lists of the worst passwords of Internet users . This is the result of regular hacker attacks, which are followed by an analysis of the password security.


Since security experts constantly recommend using a different password for each service, the users can not even be angry. E-mails, Facebook, various portals for online shopping - who should remember all this? A solution is to create password safes, which, if desired, create unbreakable passwords and provide them to the user for copying and pasting. Remember, you only have to do one thing - but they are not really used in the mass of users yet.


Microsoft is also aware of this. With the huge usability of Windows, Xbox Live and outlook.com, as well as countless Office customers, the potential risk of becoming victims of a hacker attack is always given and very high. Instead of adapting to the above specifications, the Redmonders take a different approach. A dynamic "blacklist" for the Microsoft account service is to ensure that certain combinations, even if you meet the best requirements, can no longer be used. This is something like "Password123 °" or "Abcdef123!" § ".


The whole thing will certainly hurt the hackers and the dangers for users - so the project is praiseworthy and you can hardly put anything on it. But the amount of time that users need to hunt for the best password certainly does not stop. More exciting support for the software vendors and a higher availability of certain hardware, such as Microsoft Hello in Windows 10. Because iris and facial scans as well as fingerprints can be taken away is certainly more comfortable and more comfortable, as the fingers on his keyboard to distort, just to look times for e-mails