Microsoft announced that Basic Authentication will be turned off for all protocols in all tenants starting October 1st, 2022, to protect millions of Exchange Online users. This announcement comes ...

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 ...

Since the past couple of years, Microsoft has been causing a lot of waves by reminding customers that it is disabling the Basic Auth mechanism for Exchange Online customers. Although support is being ...

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 still intends to turn off Basic Authentication for Exchange Online users on Oct. 1, but it is offering a possible grace period of about three months before ending it altogether. The new ...

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 ...