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 ...

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 ...

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A massive botnet of over 130,000 compromised devices is conducting password-spray attacks against Microsoft 365 (M365) accounts worldwide, targeting basic authentication to evade multi-factor ...

Microsoft is adding Android and iOS Outlook client authentication improvements this month for its Office 365 Exchange Online subscribers. Specifically, Microsoft's June Office 365 update will be ...