Web apps, Google Workspace and the OAuth shared access mechanism are endangering user security and privacy with their complexity, researchers said at the Black Hat and DEF CON security conferences.

Additionally, OAuth 2.0 is a framework, not a protocol (like version 1.0). It would be like all the car manufacturers agreeing on how valets would automatically request, receive and use valet keys ...

A new open-source project called OAuth, released earlier this month, is… A new standard aims to help users pass information between Web services without sharing full access to their identities.

That's where OAuth comes in. Here's how it works, and how it keeps your passwords safe on third-party sites. Yesterday, a Twitter app called Tweetgif was hacked , releasing user information for ...

This makes the systems based on OAuth 2.0 or OpenID highly vulnerable. ... Here comes a new, Web-wide security threat — this time for OAuth & OpenID. Barry Levine. May 2, 2014 12:50 PM ...

Today, Google and Plaxo released a hybrid protocol that combines OpenID, the open online identity standard, with OAuth, the secure data portability standard. Too often, when a Website wants to ...

Thanks to OpenID and OAuth, the Open Social Web is Beginning to Emerge; OAuth 1.0 Released: Logging in Gets Safer and Easier; New Foundation Wants to Bridge the Gaps Between Open Web Tools; ...

Google's added the OAuth standard to Gmail. Now available to developers through Google Code Labs, the move tightens up e-mail account security when a user authorizes a third-party developer to see ...