Security News > 2018 > June > Microsoft offers new Azure AD tool to nix easily guessed passwords

Predictable, easy-to-guess passwords are often the weak link that ends up breaking the security chain and attackers know this. “They know to account for character substitutions like ‘$’ for ‘s’. They also that if there are complexity rules, most people will apply them in the same way: by starting a word with a capital letter and ending the password with a digit or punctuation. They know that requiring users to change their passwords periodically leads … More → The post Microsoft offers new Azure AD tool to nix easily guessed passwords appeared first on Help Net Security.

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