Microsoft May Ban Your Favorite Password (securityweek.com)

wiredmikey writes from a report via SecurityWeek.Com: Microsoft is taking a step to better protect users by banning the use of weak and commonly-used passwords across its services. Microsoft has announced that it is dynamically banning common passwords from Microsoft Account and Azure Active Directory (AD) system. In addition to banning commonly used passwords to improve user account safety, Microsoft has implemented a feature called smart password lockout, meant to add an extra level of protection when an account is attacked. [Alex Weinert, Group Program Manager of Azure AD Identity Protection team explains in a blog post that] Microsoft is seeing more than 10 million accounts being attacked each day, and that this data is used to dynamically update the list of banned passwords. This list is then used to prevent people from choosing a common or similar password. Microsoft's new feature comes after last week's leak of 117 million LinkedIn credentials.

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Re:If

[burtosis]

If you ban common passwords. Then you end up with a new set of common passwords. Going to ban those too?

Absolutely! In no time flat this Microsoft problem should fix itself.

Re:Rogue pathc to circumvent this in.....

[Anonymous Coward]

This will be instantly patched around with either a registry edit or a binary rogue patch available for download.

Microsoft, you cant force people to use their brain.

Indeed. If these people could use their grey matter they'd have been using OpenBSD or Linux years ago.

Password not accepted

[CanadianMacFan]

Your new password is not accepted. Please install Windows 10 and try a new password.

Re:If

[budgenator]

Don't worry, Windows 10 has an option to use a strong secure 4 digit PIN number instead of a weak 8 alpha-numeric characters consisting of upper, lower case letters, numbers and at least one special character! Microsoft has saved us from the horrors of passwords like P@$$W0rd and Qwerty1! and has lead us to the Brave New World, we hail our new overlords of 1234 and 7777! We'll all be saved by Samsonite's random number generator.