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 ...

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 ...

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 ...