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 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 ...

The main purpose of Basic Authentication in Outlook is to allow users to save credentials when it is being used against a server. However, if you want to prevent users from saving credentials for ...

Microsoft this week again appealed to organizations using Exchange Online to move away from using "Basic Authentication," reminding them that support for it will get dropped, starting on Oct. 1, 2022.

Prepare your applications and users for big changes on 13 October 2020. It’s less than a year until Microsoft turns off Basic Authentication for its Exchange Web Services (EWS). While new apps like ...

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 ...

Microsoft has announced new cybersecurity enhancements for Outlook personal email accounts as part of its 'Secure Future Initiative,' including the deprecation of basic authentication (username + ...

For various protocols, Microsoft has already removed Basic Authentication in Exchange Online. The timeline for SMTP is being postponed. So far, Microsoft has disabled simple username-password login ...