![]() (Tom's Guide disagrees: Strong, unique passwords aren't hard to handle as long as you're using one of the best password managers, some of which are free. "Nearly a third of people say they completely stop using an account or service rather than dealing with a lost password." ![]() "Passwords are incredibly inconvenient to create, remember, and manage across all the accounts in our lives," he said. ![]() More than 17 years after Bill Gates famously predicted the death of the password (opens in new tab), Microsoft has given up trying to get people to create and use strong, unique passwords, Jakkal explained. "There are a whopping 579 password attacks every second - that's 18 billion every year." "Weak passwords are the entry point for the majority of attacks across enterprise and consumer accounts," wrote Vasu Jakkal (opens in new tab), Microsoft's corporate vice-president of security, in a company blog post yesterday (Sept.
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