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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Remember back in October when Google waved the flag for OpenID, the federated log-in standard that lets users log into Web sites with the same user name and password? More importantly, the company was ...

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 ...

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, ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A security flaw in widely used open-source software puts countless ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...