{"id":166206,"date":"2016-05-26T09:01:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T07:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=166206"},"modified":"2016-05-26T09:03:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T07:03:15","slug":"microsoft-banning-weak-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/166206-microsoft-banning-weak-passwords.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft banning weak passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/ad\/2016\/05\/24\/another-117m-leaked-usernames-and-passwords-new-best-practices-azuread-and-msa-can-help\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Microsoft said<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0it is protecting its clients by dynamically banning commonly-used passwords which are easy to crack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most important thing to keep in mind when selecting a password is to choose one that is unique, and therefore hard to guess,\u201d said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe help you do this in the Microsoft Account and Azure AD system by dynamically banning commonly-used passwords.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said cyber-criminals analyse\u00a0passwords for common usage, and use this data to attack users.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we do is prevent you from having a password anywhere near the current attack list, so those attacks won\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Dynamically Banned Passwords service is live in the Microsoft Account Service and in private preview in Azure AD.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the next few months we will roll it out across all Azure AD tenants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on passwords<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/159550-how-to-choose-hacker-proof-passwords.html\"><strong>How to choose hacker-proof passwords<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/155104-the-south-african-government-passwords-cracked-in-anonymous-database-hack.html\">The South African government passwords cracked in Anonymous database hack<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/152511-bad-passwords-2011-to-2015.html\">Bad passwords: 2011 to 2015<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft helps users protect against weak passwords by dynamically banning commonly-used combinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,31094,123,3676],"class_list":["post-166206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-azure","tag-microsoft","tag-passwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166230,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166206\/revisions\/166230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}