From the department of head scratches comes this counterintuitive news: Microsoft says it has no plans to change a remote ...

Microsoft is taking another big step toward eliminating passwords with a passwordless by default setting for new accounts.

Microsoft joined the passkey party in May last year, and today, it has announced the next step to protect folks using a Windows PC or any other Microsoft service. Moving ahead, all new Microsoft ...

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This effectively makes passwordless the default for all new accounts, as users will never need to create a password in the ...

Microsoft has announced that all new Microsoft accounts will be "passwordless by default" to secure them against password ...

Microsoft is killing passwords on all new accounts. The US company is making all new accounts passwordless by default.

A security nightmare: attackers can log in with old, revoked passwords. Microsoft is not planning any changes.

Last year, we observed a staggering 7,000 password attacks per second (more than double the rate from 2023). As passkeys ...

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