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 ...

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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.

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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 ...

Heads turned Wednesday when Twitter turned off its popular new authentication service, which uses the emerging OAuth web standard. The real story soon broke that someone exposed an OAuth security ...

A security hole in OAuth, the open-source protocol that acts as a "valet key" for users' log-in information, has led services like Twitter and Yahoo to temporarily pull their support, CNET News has ...

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 ...