Signing users in to a mobile or web app isn’t necessarily hard, but keeping their credentials safe is something that’s often best left to specialists. The OpenID Foundation today announced the launch ...

[Ed. The OpenID protocol is rapidly gaining momentum in the social networking arena. Exemplifying the momentum OpenID is gaining, Symantec recently announced that it would support OpenID in its ...

It was amazing, a revelation really. I’ve said in the past that Bill Gates didn’t really understand the whole “identity thing” but evidently he’s been taking lessons privately. In case you missed it, ...

Last issue I predicted a bit of a slowdown, some bumps in the road perhaps even some fracturing of the OpenID community in the coming year. Scott Kveton disagrees. Well, he would as he’s CEO of ...

Learn how to improve single sign-on (SSO) experiences using OpenID Connect (OIDC) and SCIM for streamlined authentication and user management.

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 ...

OpenID has gotten a big lift this week with two big announcements coming from two very different camps. First, Microsoft has announced that Windows Live will officially support OpenID for login and ...

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 ...

A thorny problem for many organisations running a website is the registration process for new users. The marketing department wants to capture as much information about each new user as possible, but ...

Thank goodness for Firefox. Yes, it's a great browser. Yes, it has all sorts of wonderful plugins that let me do everything from debugging my Web applications to checking the weather forecast. And, ...

Drupal has patched several vulnerabilities in versions 6 and 7 of the content-management system, including a critical bug that enables an attacker to hijack administrators’ accounts and take arbitrary ...