ZDNet

Microsoft Azure, Office 365 users hit by multi-factor authentication issue

A number of Microsoft Azure and Office 365 users have been unable to get into their accounts for most of the day on November 19. The problem: A multi-factor authentication issue which hit users ...

Microsoft to enforce MFA for Microsoft 365 admin center sign-ins

Microsoft will start enforcing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all users accessing the Microsoft 365 admin center ...

All Microsoft 365 users will need to activate MFA soon, or else

Microsoft has announced that Microsoft 365 users must enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) support by February 9th, ...
ZDNet

Microsoft's multi-factor authentication service goes down for second week in a row

Just over a week after a global problem with its multi-factor authentication (MFA) service plagued a number of users, another Microsoft MFA outage is impacting a number of customers. Many, but not all ...
CSOonline

Best practices for deploying multi-factor authentication on Microsoft networks

Microsoft will soon change the mandate to multi-factor authentication (MFA) with changes to Microsoft 365 defaults. As Microsoft points out, “When we look at hacked accounts, more than 99.9% don’t ...
Wired

Microsoft’s Office 365 outage is a big backwards step for security

For more than 15 hours on Monday, people from organisations all over the world, including the UK parliament, were unable to login to their email accounts or anything else hosted on Office 365, ...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft to Require Multi-Factor Authentication for Cloud Solution Providers

It might be difficult to fathom how this isn’t already mandatory, but Microsoft Corp. says it will soon force all Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs) that help companies manage their Office365 accounts to ...