How to prevent the daily authorization request for outlook mail account
I have to maintain a number of MS Outlook mail accounts. Every day, sometimes more than once per day I have to authorize access to the accounts. What is causing this problem, and how to prevent? Is it a Thunderbird problem or a Microsoft problem? Thanks for your help. Paul
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You might find it is an antivirus problem, or a VPN problem.
Antivirus and their self signed certificates in connections can cause issues, but in th9is instance I would be looking to a VPN if you have one as they offer a fake location on the internet. All very good if you want to watch geo blocked content. Particularly unhelpful when you are connecting to web sites that know where you live and work and have been tracking your general movements through travel for as long as you have had an account with them. They go, you suddenly turned up in Budapest today, you never went there before, we will stick up a password check to ensure it is not the oauth hijackers.
The ones in December are discussed here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2022/11/16/token-tactics-how-to-prevent-detect-and-respond-to-cloud-token-theft/ but token hijacking may be the "new" security issue for 2024.