In basic authentication, a client passes credentials in plaintext while making an HTTP request to a server. The server will return a HTTP 401 Unauthorized status code, indicating that the ...

Given these Windows domain credentials, it's possible for an attacker to "capture domain credentials in plain text (HTTP basic authentication) that are being transferred over the wire." ...

GUEST OPINION: The use of Basic Authentication over the internet is as old as the basic standard for the world wide web. Its use was outlined in May 1996 as part of the standard for version 1.0 of ...

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.

Basic authentication (aka legacy authentication or proxy authentication) is an HTTP-based auth scheme applications use for sending credentials in plain text to servers, endpoints, or various ...

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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 ...