Twitter officially disabled Basic authentication this week, the final step in the company’s transition to mandatory OAuth authentication. Sadly, Twitter’s extremely poor implementation of the OAuth ...

Flaws in the authorization system of the Booking.com website could have allowed attackers to take over user accounts and gain full visibility into their personal or payment-card data, as well as log ...

Report shows the importance of ensuring OAuth implementation is secure to protect against identity theft, financial fraud, and access to personal information ...

A vulnerability in the implementation of the Open Authorization (OAuth) standard that websites and applications use to connect to Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, and more could allow attackers to ...

A new report released today by application programming interface security startup Salt Security Inc. warns of significant vulnerabilities in several major online platforms’ social sign-in and Open ...

In today's interconnected digital world, secure authentication is paramount, forming the backbone of reliable and safe digital applications. As one of the industry's most seasoned experts and leaders, ...

Earlier this week, we reported on a number of new security enhancements that we expect Gmail to launch in the next few days, including oAuth support. It looks like we were right: a small startup ...

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 ...

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 callback feature in Twitter's OAuth implementation can be abused, a researcher said at Hack in the Box A feature in the Twitter API (application programming interface) can be abused by ...