There are several great authenticator solutions, including these five.

Authenticating workloads is becoming more and more complex, particularly given things like AI agents and the wide range of ...

Of the 170 email-related healthcare breaches that were reported to the HHS in 2025, nearly three quarters had no effective policy to stop spoofed emails from reaching employee inboxes. Over half ...

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 ...

Unprotected usernames and passwords offer little defense against account takeover attacks. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) has quite rightly become the de facto standard for strengthening access ...

Microsoft has announced that High Volume Email (HVE) in Microsoft 365 will continue to support basic authentication until September 2028. The idea is to give businesses more time to move to modern ...

Universal basic income was once thought politically impossible. Then came Andrew Yang and COVID-19. Basic income programs are now gaining traction, offering payments to struggling families. Many ...

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A botnet of more than 130,000 compromised devices is conducting a large-scale password-spray cyberattack, targeting Microsoft 365 accounts through a basic authentication feature. The attacks have been ...