Stop using your password—here’s why
All change for Microsoft. The company has suddenly confirmed a major update “for over 1 billion end users,” as the deletion of passwords for all users becomes real. Your Microsoft password, it warns, “could be easily forgotten or guessed by an attacker,” and it’s now time “to completely remove the password from your account.”. “Bad actors know it, which is why they’re desperately accelerating password-related attacks while they still can.
Microsoft explains that when signing up for a new account, just entering your email address will be enough. “You don’t have to create a new Microsoft password… All you need to do is verify the email with a one-time code, and this becomes the default credential for your new account, so you start off passwordless.”
Elon Musk Vows Social Security Recipients Will ‘Receive More Money’ Under DOGE Changes—But Doesn’t Say HowOnce signed in, users will then create their passkey. “We’re also updating the Microsoft account sign in logic, so your passkey is the default sign in choice whenever possible, because passkeys are more secure and three times faster than passwords.”
Microsoft has been very clear as to why adding passkeys is not good enough if passwords remain on the account. “Even if we get our more than one billion users to enroll and use passkeys, if a user has both a passkey and a password, and both grant access to an account, the account is still at risk for phishing.”making weekly headlines. “Our ultimate goal is to remove passwords completely and have accounts that only support phishing-resistant credentials,” Microsoft says.
What we need now is the same password deletion clarity from all other major platform providers to ensure this shift is wholesale. Google, in contrast to Microsoft, talks about passwords remaining as a backup credential for account access. But per Microsoft’s warning, this leaves a vulnerability in place. This should be the year we see consistent advice on passkeys and the eradication of password and simple 2FA usage.
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