Microsoft on Thursday announced an update to its plans to end "Basic Authentication" when used with the Exchange Online e-mail service. Basic Authentication, which consists of supplying just a user ...

Microsoft warned customers today that it will finally disable basic authentication in random tenants worldwide to improve Exchange Online security starting October 1, 2022. Today's announcement ...

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 ...

Microsoft warned today that it will permanently turn off Exchange Online basic authentication starting early January 2023 to improve security. "Beginning in early January, we will send Message Center ...

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 ...