Microsoft offering option to ditch passwords

Microsoft is giving users the enactment to get escaped of their passwords.

In a blog post, Vasu Jakkal, Microsoft's firm vice president of Security, Compliance and Identity, said they person been moving connected the exertion for years.

"You tin present wholly region the password from your Microsoft account," helium said. "Use the Microsoft Authenticator app, Windows Hello, a information key, oregon a verification codification sent to your telephone oregon email to motion successful to your favourite apps and services, specified arsenic Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Family Safety, and more."

Jakkal said "weak passwords" pb to compromised accounts. He claims determination are 579 password attacks each second.

If a idiosyncratic decides to spell passwordless and doesn't similar it, Jakkal said they tin revert their relationship backmost to accepting a password.

CNN reports that stolen passwords tin extremity up connected the acheronian web and pb to idiosyncratic accusation being compromised.