Hotmail improve security by prohibiting their use simple passwords

The number of users who use mail service Gmail, is impressive, but many prefer other systems, such as,
Hotmail. Growing popularity of the latter, and its developers regularly introduce updates to the overall functionality and interface updates than gaining more users. A few days ago it was announced that the security update, which includes two very important points. First, the developers have introduced a ban on the use of the registration simplistic passwords like "12345», «password» etc. Second, the administration will now be notified of the hacked accounts.

Passwords are vulnerable to break-ins - a common problem, the relevance of which began to grow with the advent of the global network of crooks and criminals. Up to now, a password consisting of a set of numbers, are popular, and there is every reason to believe that new users will not pay due attention to the safety of their accounts in the future. However, this problem will cease to exist for the customer service Hotmail. Now the service checks the password entered by the user, and want to replace it if it does not comply with safety regulations.

Since upgrading faced by all users of the mail service, even those that have just started the registration process. It is hoped that other services, not just post in the near future will follow the example Hotmail and allowing them to use insecure passwords. However, the ban should be banned, that is, the system should not only inform about the vulnerability of the password, and avoid using it.

In addition to the ban on the use of weak passwords, developers surprised Hotmail users by adding to the menu, which is used to work with letters at the mailbox, click «My friend's been hacked!». Until improvements in the menu items have only «Read», «Unread», «Flagged», «Unflagged». Then added «Phishing scam», and the latest news was the item «My friend's been hacked!», The choice of which causes the system to notify an acquaintance of his mail is hacked, the next time you log on to Hotmail. After receiving such notice, the owner of the compromised account will be forced to carry out the restoration of rights.