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 ...

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 ...

Since the beginning of distributed personal computer networks, one of the toughest computer security nuts to crack has been to provide a seamless, single sign-on (SSO) access experience among multiple ...

Some Microsoft applications are vulnerable to an authentication issue that could enable Azure account takeover. A vulnerability in the way Microsoft applications use OAuth for third-party ...

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 ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bloomreach, the world’s #1 Commerce Experience Cloud, today announced the support of Open Authorization (OAuth) 2.0 authentication for webhooks, an industry ...

Authentication systems employed by large websites such as Twitter and Digg could be at risk after researchers have discovered a basic flaw that could crack a large number of open-source software ...

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 ...

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 ...