Hotmail puts a square on shaky passwords
Microsoft will avert individuals who agree to accept Hotmail from utilizing passwords, for example, '123456' and 'ilovecats' to attempt to prevent spammers and phishers from commandeering accounts Hotmail is prohibiting passwords, for example, 'secret phrase', '123456', 'ilovecats' and 'gogiants', trying to make it harder for spammers to seize clients' email accounts. Individuals who agree to accept the web email administration will be kept from utilizing a secret word ordinarily utilized by a great many others, Microsoft said in a blog entry on Thursday. "This new element will take off soon, and will keep you from picking an exceptionally normal secret phrase when you agree to accept a record or when you change your secret key," composed Dick Craddock, gather program chief for Hotmail. "In case you're as of now utilizing a typical secret phrase, you may, sooner or later, be requested to transform it to a more