Microsoft has officially deprecated NTLM authentication on Windows and Windows servers, stating that developers should transition to Kerberos or Negotiation authentication to prevent problems in the ...

FrontPage Remote Procedure Call and others set to be blocked in the name of 'Secure by Default' Microsoft has warned administrators that legacy authentication protocols will be blocked by default from ...

Microsoft announced earlier this week that the NTLM authentication protocol will be killed off in Windows 11 in the future. NTLM (short for New Technology LAN Manager) is a family of protocols used to ...

On a fairly regular basis, Microsoft disables outdated protocols that are used to access its services. In the past few years, the company has deprecated Basic Auth in Exchange Online and cut access to ...

Legacy authentication refers to older ways of logging in, such as POP3, IMAP, and old versions of Exchange ActiveSync. These methods are similar to a friend who still uses a flip phone; they can ...

Microsoft's Exchange team is warning Exchange Online users that many of its customers are being targeted by password spray attacks using its basic authentication. The warning comes as Microsoft begins ...

Speaking at the RSA security conference last week, Microsoft engineers said that 99.9% of the compromised accounts they track every month don't use multi-factor authentication, a solution that stops ...