Starting with Windows 8, Microsoft introduced a new way to sign-in by using the online credentials to the user’s Microsoft Account. A local (or managed, which is another story) Windows account was the only way to authenticate in Windows 7 and earlier versions. Traditionally, Windows users used to sign-in to their computers with a password. What has been changed compared to Windows 10, how these changes affect forensic extraction and analysis, and to what extent can one overcome the TPM-based protection? Read along to find out! Windows 11 “passwordless” accounts The blog post read, “Hackers don’t break-in, they log in.”.Windows 11 introduces increased account protection, passwordless sign-in and hardware-based security. Therefore, hackers were able to guess them or reveal them in a data breach and reuse them. “We are expected to create complex and unique passwords, remember them, and change them frequently – but nobody likes doing that.” Rather than creating secure passwords, people tended to create passwords that technically allowed for use of The website’s password sensitivity consists of symbols, numbers or lowercase letters – but in order to remember them, it uses the same formula or password on multiple websites. Vasu Jakkal, the security vice president, said that creating, remembering, and managing passwords are difficult across all the accounts in our lives. “This isn’t just logging into PCs, it’s logging into online services as well” – including important ones such as cloud storage, he said.

Alan Woodward of the University of Surrey, who works on researching passwordless authentication, has called Microsoft’s move “quite a bold one”. When access to the authentication app is lost – for instance, if your phone is stolen or lost or if you forget to upgrade – backup options are available, including: There are only a few exceptions, like the Office 2010 suite and Xbox 360 consoles, and earlier versions of Windows would require passwords.

Users of Windows will still be able to use features such as Pin codes to log in quickly.

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