SAML protocol bug let hackers log in as other users A validation bug in how some single sign-on products implemented an open authentication standard could have allowed an attacker to log in ...

The Golden SAML attack is a variation of this attack, but for services that use the SAML 2.0 protocol, an open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties.

Microsoft completed its first SAML interoperability test and the results are in: Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 software received a passing grade.

Widely used single sign on implementations could potentially be mis-configured, enabling attackers to easily take over a victim's account.

Microsoft next month for the first time will participate in SAML 2.0 interoperability testing using its Geneva platform to test against other vendors' implementations of the open standard identity ...

Microsoft's federated identity platform passed its first SAML 2.0 interoperability test; the company previously shunned the protocol for WS-Federation ...

Vasilis Koulolias, the dissemination leader for the group – Secure Identity Across Borders Linked (STORK) – said the SAML 2 will be the core protocol for its common identity framework. The framework ...

At that time, Microsoft said it would add certification for the Liberty Alliance implementation of SAML 2.0 when the final code of Geneva is released at the end of 2009. Microsoft has had support for ...

A group co-funded by the European Union will use as the core protocol for an identity system designed to integrate member states, but the group is still investigating if can provide some future ...