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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, Feb. 27, 2025: This story, originally published Feb.

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 ...

Attacks like password spraying, brute force, and phishing have targeted Office 365 cloud users for years. Most incidents share a common thread: access to the right combinations of usernames and ...