The social web welcomed a new open standard into its midst Wednesday with the release of OAuth, a user authentication protocol created by a disparate group of web programmers. OAuth involves concepts ...

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The standard grew too far away from its roots as a simple Web authentication technology, author Eran Hammer-Lahav says, and now is insecure and overly broad. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

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Virtually all of Google’s APIs currently support OAuth 2.0, a framework for allowing third-party apps limited access to your data from other services, as their standard authentication mechanism.

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 ...

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Mobile app developers need to be aware of improper OAuth 2.0 implementations that have put one billion mobile apps at risk to takeover. Third-party applications that allow single sign-on via Facebook ...