Back in 2022, Microsoft announced the retirement of Basic Authentication as it was moving to modern OAuth 2.0 token-based authentication. The reason was simple, to move away from such simple ...

If you've implemented multi-factor authentication, you should disable the default basic authentication to make sure attackers can't exploit it. Attackers will go after weaker credentials and passwords ...

Microsoft's Exchange team is warning Exchange Online users that many of its customers are being targeted by password spray attacks using its basic authentication. The warning comes as Microsoft begins ...

Microsoft and major cloud providers are starting to take steps to move their business customers toward more secure forms of authentication and the elimination of basic security weaknesses — such as ...

Microsoft upped the stakes in its effort to end "Basic Authentication" with the Exchange Online e-mail service. It plans to end support for Basic Authentication next year when used with various e-mail ...

Following months of warnings to customers, Microsoft finally started deprecating Basic Authentication in Exchange Online last month. However, as we had learned earlier, customers can still re-enable ...