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 ...

Almost three years ago, Microsoft announced that it is turning off Basic Authentication in Exchange Online and migrating to Modern Authentication (OAuth 2.0). Since then, the company has been ...

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 ...

Microsoft's Exchange team is warning Exchange Online users that many of its customers are being targeted by password spray attacks using its basic authentication. The warning comes as Microsoft begins ...

Following months of warnings to customers, Microsoft finally started deprecating Basic Authentication in Exchange Online last month. However, as we had learned earlier, customers can still re-enable ...

Microsoft recommends enabling multi-factor authentication for Office 365. To do so, you must also disable basic or legacy authentication on Microsoft Exchange Server. Microsoft recently announced that ...