Mobile app developers need to be aware of improper OAuth 2.0 implementations that have put one billion mobile apps at risk to takeover. Third-party applications that allow single sign-on via Facebook ...

The standard grew too far away from its roots as a simple Web authentication technology, author Eran Hammer-Lahav says, and now is insecure and overly broad. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

After three years as lead author and editor of the OAuth 2.0 specification, Eran Hammer has stepped down from his role, withdrawn his name from the spec and even quit the OAuth working group ...

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 ...

Virtually all of Google’s APIs currently support OAuth 2.0, a framework for allowing third-party apps limited access to your data from other services, as their standard authentication mechanism.

One of the tasks I dread is configuring a web server to send email correctly via Gmail. The simplest way of sending emails is SMTP, and there are a number of scripts out there that provide a simple ...

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 ...

Omer Tsarfati and his team at security firm CyberArk are now finally able to discuss a major OAuth 2.0 vulnerability that affects Microsoft Azure web services which they have been sitting on since ...