![]() One in 10 people admitted reusing passwords across sites, and 40% say they've used a formula for their passwords, like Fall2021, which eventually becomes Winter2021 or Spring2022," she added. ![]() "Other common answers included family names and important dates like birthdays. "One of our recent surveys found that 15% of people use their pets' names for password inspiration," Jakkal said. Jakkal blamed the situation on today's authentication conundrum where users struggle with remembering account passwords and typically chose to reuse the same password for multiple accounts or use simple passwords - which are easy to guess by attackers. In a blog post today announcing the move, Vasu Jakkal, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Security, Compliance, Identity, and Management, said Microsoft is currently seeing a whopping 579 password attacks every second, amounting to 18 billion every year. System administrators and security engineers previously asked for a way to secure accounts against brute-force password-guessing attacks, which have been common after hackers dumped billions of user credentials on the public internet over the past decade. ![]() Prior to its deployment in March and today, the feature had been widely requested by Microsoft's enterprise customers. Today's news comes after Microsoft piloted this new setup earlier this year, in March 2021, when it allowed Azure enterprise users to ditch passwords for safer alternatives.
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