Twitter is killing support for basic user authentication in third-party apps on Tuesday morning, the company says. Instead, Twitter will now require all third-party app developers to use OAuth for ...

Another day, another major internet security flaw (step aside, Heartbleed). A bug has been found in OpenID and OAuth 2.0, two authentication programs that let you log into web sites using your Google, ...

How do you sign into services? Because a newly disclosed Facebook exploit might change how you go about it in future... In an eye-opening blog post, security researcher Youssef Sammouda has revealed ...

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 ...

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 ...

PayPal engineers have removed a "magic word" that would have allowed an attacker to obtain OAuth secret tokens for -- any -- PayPal application and access customer details. Adobe security engineer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Device code phishing targets 340+ Microsoft 365 orgs since Feb 2026 via OAuth abuse, enabling persistent token hijacking and ...