Digital Smarts - Microsoft Banning Simple Passwords

Have you tried to use your usual, easy to remember password when logging into Xbox, Skype, or even Microsoft Word and it didn’t work? That is because Microsoft is banning them. Microsoft will now require users to have an eight character password that will be checked against common passwords typically targeted by hackers. Although these efforts are intended to reduce the number of successful hackings, there are no signs of hacking attempts ending anytime soon - Microsoft says that 10 million of its users’ accounts are attacked each day.