Back in 2022, Microsoft announced the retirement of Basic Authentication as it was moving to modern OAuth 2.0 token-based authentication. The reason was simple, to move away from such simple ...

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 ...

ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. However, “minimal” doesn’t mean minimal security. Minimal APIs ...

In 2017, we saw a new influx of spectacular and devastating breaches. Somewhat lost in the chaos was a surprising trend amongst them -- a sharp escalation in attackers utilizing stolen, valid ...

When building your .NET applications, you will often need to generate API documentation. To do this, you might use Swagger, a toolkit that makes it simple to provide a graphical representation of your ...