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 ...

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 ...

Two fast growing standards in the world of identity management are paving the way for the open social web of the future. Earlier this week the final draft spec for OpenID 2.0 was released and, with ...

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, ...

Only a month after Heartbleed almost turned the Internet upside down, another major security flaw hits the limelight - one that could allow hackers to obtain a user's login information, exploiting ...

A researcher's contention of security flaws in OAuth and OpenID has serious flaws of its own, according to those familiar with the specifications. News of the security issues hit hard Friday claiming ...

Signs continue to point in a positive direction for OpenID. Representatives from major web companies and innovative players are meeting at Yahoo today to discuss the user experience of OpenID and ...

Today, Google and Plaxo released a hybrid protocol that combines OpenID, the open online identity standard, with OAuth, the secure data portability standard. Too often, when a Website wants to import ...

The recent Heartbleed scare caused a huge stir, even though it was effectively fixed before it even happened. There are other sorts of security holes, however, which can't be plugged so readily, and ...

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 ...