New password changes come as attacks surge CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images Microsoft has confirmed plans to delete passwords for a billion users. “The password era is ending,” it says, warning those users that “bad actors know it, which is why they’re desperately accelerating password-related attacks while they still can.” The company now “blocks 7,000 attacks on passwords per second… almost double from a year ago.” It has also seen adversary-in-the-middle phishing attacks increase by 1...