The password is 60 this year, and it’s still one of the biggest threats to security as this warning confirms.
Microsoft has been busy issuing security warnings this last week or two, and for a change, they aren’t about Windows 10 zero-days like the Mystery Snail. They do, however, involve a rising tide threat with a sixty-year-old security innovation at the heart of it all. Yes, it’s the password: happy 60th birthday, now please go away. Specifically, in this case, the moving target attack vector that is password spraying.
