Microsoft has announced a series of changes in the way you log in to your emails whether they are Hotmail, Outlook or Live.
As announced through the Outlook blog, Starting September 16 of this year, basic authentication will be deactivated that only requires username and password to add additional steps and thus reinforce security.
According to what the addresses ending in @hotmail.com, @live.com and @outlook.com explained They will have to add an additional safety factor, such as another email address, a phone number or a security token.
From Microsoft they noted that “While basic authentication was the standard for quite some time, it also made it easier for criminals to capture a person’s login information,” adding that “This increased the risk that those stolen credentials would be reused to gain access to a person’s email or personal data.”
“With modern authentication methods, we apply additional backend processes/tokens that users may not notice and that add an extra layer of security. “Anyone who tries to use an app that doesn’t support modern authentication will no longer be able to access their Outlook.com, Hotmail, or Live.com email from those apps,” they detail.
Given this, Microsoft began a transition period where users will receive emails where they will be notified to add an additional security step, pointing out that if they do not do so they could experience errors or even not be able to log in. from September.
Outlook
Finally, Microsoft also indicated that they will close the web light version of Outlook on August 19, 2024.
“We understand that it is important to access your Outlook.com account from anywhere. Many customers access Outlook.com from web browsers. While most customers access their personal email accounts through modern, current browsers, we offered a lightweight version of the Outlook web app compatible with older browsers. As we accelerate our security efforts to help better protect our customers, We are retiring the light version of the Outlook web app. This means that after 2024 customers will need to be running the latest versions of a supported browser to run Outlook.com,” They explained about it.
