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 ...

Since the beginning of distributed personal computer networks, one of the toughest computer security nuts to crack has been to provide a seamless, single sign-on (SSO) access experience among multiple ...

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 ...

Egor Homakov hacked Facebook the other day, and while that's interesting all on its own, it's much more interesting as the advance guard of what will surely be a busy season of attacks against sites ...