{"id":312,"date":"2021-09-16T22:59:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T02:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/?p=312"},"modified":"2021-09-16T22:59:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T02:59:11","slug":"microsoft-to-replace-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/16\/microsoft-to-replace-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft To Replace Passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/09\/16\/tech\/microsoft-passwordless-accounts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">piece of news<\/a> had me really excited until I saw the replacements. Take a pin for an example. Isn&#8217;t a pin just a numerical password?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-green-color\">Microsoft has a solution for the familiar problem of needing to remember too many passwords: doing away with them altogether. The company announced Wednesday that it will introduce a &#8220;passwordless account&#8221; option for all users of several popular services such as Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft OneDrive in the coming weeks. Microsoft previously made this option available to corporate accounts in March. &#8220;You can now completely remove the password from your Microsoft account,&#8221; Vasu Jakkal, the company&#8217;s corporate vice president of security, compliance and identity, wrote in a blog post Wednesday<\/span><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This piece of news had me really excited until I saw the replacements. Take a pin for an example. Isn&#8217;t a pin just a numerical password? Microsoft has a solution for the familiar problem of needing to remember too many passwords: doing away with them altogether. The company announced Wednesday that it will introduce a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/16\/microsoft-to-replace-passwords\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft To Replace Passwords<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}