With today’s announcement from Facebook of its plans to take its Facebook Connect program into the mobile sphere with Single Sign-on, it started to raise some questions from across various points. On ...

A serious vulnerability in both the OAuth and OpenID protocols could lead to complications for those who use the services to login to websites like Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Microsoft, PayPal ...

A security researcher has uncovered serious security vulnerabilities in the technologies used by many websites to authenticate users via third-party websites. A blog posted late last week revealed the ...

Getting familiar with OpenID and OAuth is really difficult.There are dozens of specifications to go through, and to make things even worse the two protocols involve different terminology. To help out, ...

Authentication and authorization are critical parts of any application. They evolved over the years to meet the challenging requirements of the modern Web. OAuth2.0 and OpenID Connect offer a ...

The recently disclosed security flaws in some implementations of the widely used OAuth and OpenID website authentication mechanisms are serious. But they're not nearly as bad as the recently ...

The push to shift security left means developers must now consider protecting user and business data through identity and access management when building applications. One standard developers can use ...

A vulnerability discovered in OAuth 2.0 and OpenID – dubbed “Covert Redirect,” a play on Open Redirect – could enable attackers to, at the very least, steal credentials from users of some of the most ...