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’s Secure Future Initiative is kicking in for Outlook.com, with higher levels of security that may impact third-party apps. Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative is kicking in for Outlook.com, ...

ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. However, “minimal” doesn’t mean minimal security. Minimal APIs ...

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