Eliminate online passwords altogether because they'll never be secure, Microsoft's cybersecurity chief says

[David Icke]: Passwords should be ditched and replaced with biometric logins because they don't sufficiently protect people, according to the top cybersecurity official at Microsoft.

Bret Arsenault told US broadcaster CNBC that 90 per cent of the tech giant's 135,000 employees now logged in without a password, instead using methods like facial and fingerprint recognition.

He said: 'Hackers don't break in, they log in…we still a see lot of attempts of people trying to password spray.' Password spraying is a method where hackers try to access large numbers of accounts at once by using common passwords.

'The best way to protect against the password spray is just to eliminate passwords', Arsenault, Microsoft's chief information security officer, said...read more>>...