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 ...

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 ...

A new capability that allows IT pros to disable "basic authentication" when using the Exchange Online service is now available as a public preview, though there are a few caveats. Basic authentication ...