These are the passwords banned by Microsoft in its services – World

 27/05/2016 8:34:48 p.m.
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 Management – Ripe .- The golden age of passwords is coming to an end. The change began when websites began to qualify passwords while you were created , trying to make us add some capital letters and symbols to increase their protection from entry level to a very secure.

Some sites more ambitious web even began to ask users to include a number, one capital letter and / or symbol. Now Microsoft has banned entirely certain basic passwords as one of the company blogs.

Passwords that are vetted in all Microsoft services (including Outlook, Skype, Xbox and more) were drawn from the annual list compiled by Splashdata worst passwords. Passwords that top the list are “123456″ and “password” , in addition to the typical “qwerty” and the new “starwars”.

According to the blog, active directory service Azure AD Microsoft will ban the same passwords soon.

the blog says this is part of efforts to end the theft of passwords, because by prohibiting common passwords will be harder for hackers into account just guessing. He also referred to the recent news of the theft of passwords and accounts of 117 million users of LinkedIn, which caused the social network for professionals restored the passwords of many users.

However, avoid these popular passwords will not automatically give a secure password . To protect access to your account, use a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols. You can also use solutions of two-factor authentication when possible to add an extra level of security.

Microsoft is not the only company looking to change the world of passwords. Google has recently launched a plan to get rid of passwords to lead to facial recognition, location or fingerprint scan. Facebook is also looking to get rid of passwords, using instead logons via email or phone number.

If other companies like what these companies are doing, this could be the in order to use “password” as the password.