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 ...

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 ...

A new capability that allows IT pros to disable "basic authentication" when using the Exchange Online service is now available as a public preview, though there are a few caveats. Basic authentication ...