After three years as lead author and editor of the OAuth 2.0 specification, Eran Hammer has stepped down from his role, withdrawn his name from the spec and even quit the OAuth working group ...

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During the past several decades, Web pages have changed from being static, mostly informational tools to full-blown applications. Coinciding with this development, Web developers have created ...

As if social media wasn't already, well, social enough, a relatively new open protocol for securely sharing information between web sites, called OAuth, has received a major boost for broad adoption.

The developers behind the OAuth protocol have developed a new variant called OAuth WRAP that is simpler and easier to implement. It’s a stop-gap solution that will enable broader OAuth adoption while ...

The developers behind the OAuth protocol have developed a new variant called OAuth WRAP that is simpler and easier to implement. It’s a stop-gap solution that will enable broader OAuth adoption while ...

Booking.com, one of the world’s largest online travel agencies, recently patched a vulnerability in its implementation of the OAuth protocol that could have allowed attackers to gain access to ...

Plaid named Okta as its vendor of choice for building new OAuth connections between banks and the data aggregator. This week, financial data aggregator Plaid announced a partnership with identity ...

The Russian hacking group blamed for targeting U.S. and European elections has been breaking into email accounts, not only by tricking victims into giving up passwords, but by stealing access tokens ...