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 ...

Authentication and authorization are critical parts of any application. They evolved over the years to meet the challenging requirements of the modern Web. OAuth2.0 and OpenID Connect offer a ...

Editor’s Note: This post was contributed by John McCrea, VP of marketing for Plaxo, which is at the vanguard of the data portability movement. He also blogs at The Real McCrea and does a weekly video ...

The future of authentication will not rely on SAML, but with OpenID Connect and OAuth 2 instead, Dave Kearns contends in a blog post for KuppingerCole. SAML, or Security Assertion Markup Language, is ...

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 ...

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 ...