Microsoft warned today that it will permanently turn off Exchange Online basic authentication starting early January 2023 to improve security.

Separated by the ‘ - ’ character, two security providers, http-basic-auth and http-digest-auth, and two users, ben and mike, have been defined. We will discuss this in more detail in the ...

If you've implemented multi-factor authentication, you should disable the default basic authentication to make sure attackers can't exploit it.

Microsoft turns off Basic Auth for personal Outlook accounts Microsoft now wants to prevent private mail accounts, such as Outlook.com, from logging in with just a username and password.

This week brings Exchange Online news regarding Basic Authentication, plus a September cumulative update delay for Exchange Server.

A couple weeks ago, we noted the start of the "OAuthpocalypse" -- that is, Twitter's move to make all developers use OAuth rather than basic authentication for their third-party apps. Twitter ...