This week brings Exchange Online news regarding Basic Authentication, plus a September cumulative update delay for Exchange Server.

A massive botnet of over 130,000 compromised devices is conducting password-spray attacks against Microsoft 365 (M365) accounts worldwide, targeting basic authentication to evade multi-factor ...

Microsoft this week again appealed to organizations using Exchange Online to move away from using 'Basic Authentication,' reminding them that support for it will get dropped, starting on Oct. 1, 2022.

Microsoft warned today that it will permanently turn off Exchange Online basic authentication starting early January 2023 to improve security.

Microsoft calls on customers to enable multi-factor authentication as it blocks billions of phishing email and password attacks.