Another day, another major internet security flaw (step aside, Heartbleed). A bug has been found in OpenID and OAuth 2.0, two authentication programs that let you log into web sites using your Google, ...
How do you sign into services? Because a newly disclosed Facebook exploit might change how you go about it in future... In an eye-opening blog post, security researcher Youssef Sammouda has revealed ...
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Twitter officially disabled Basic authentication this week, the final step in the company's transition to mandatory OAuth authentication. Sadly, Twitter's extremely poor implementation of the OAuth ...
Federation is a model of identity management that distributes the various individual components of an identity operation amongst different actors. The presumption being that the jobs can be ...
PayPal engineers have removed a "magic word" that would have allowed an attacker to obtain OAuth secret tokens for -- any -- PayPal application and access customer details. Adobe security engineer ...
Nginx on Tuesday released its latest product offering, the Plus R8, which includes an initial release of OAuth 2-based authentication. Nginx CEO Gus Robertson said that many of today's most popular ...
eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Twitter has completed its move to OAuth for authentication ...
Any substantial website is going to need to customize itself for individual users. Thus, it is going to have to authenticate those users — that is, let them log in. As a software developer, it is your ...