The OAuth keys and secrets that official Twitter applications use to access users’ Twitter accounts have been leaked in a post to Github this morning. The OAuth keys and secrets that official Twitter ...

Federation is a model of identity management that distributes the various individual components of an identity operation amongst different actors. The presumption being that the jobs can be ...

Nginx on Tuesday released its latest product offering, the Plus R8, which includes an initial release of OAuth 2-based authentication. Nginx CEO Gus Robertson said that many of today's most popular ...

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 ...

We recently asked all Twitter third party app developers to get rid of asking for user credentials and kindly switch to delegated authentication based on the open OAuth protocol. Today we want to ...

One of the tasks I dread is configuring a web server to send email correctly via Gmail. The simplest way of sending emails is SMTP, and there are a number of scripts out there that provide a simple ...

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the backbone of many services and applications, enabling different software to interact with each other seamlessly. However, with this increased ...

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 ...

You have a lot of options to choose from when laying out an authorization structure for mobile applications that communicate with a web API. For basic scenarios with low to medium security ...

Flaws in the implementation of the Open Authorization (OAuth) standard across three prominent online services could have allowed attackers to take over hundreds of millions of user accounts on dozens ...