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 ...

What is SAML and what is it used for? The Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an open standard that allows security credentials to be shared by multiple computers across a network. It ...

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, ...

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 ...

Authentication systems employed by large websites such as Twitter and Digg could be at risk after researchers have discovered a basic flaw that could crack a large number of open-source software ...

The recent Heartbleed scare caused a huge stir, even though it was effectively fixed before it even happened. There are other sorts of security holes, however, which can't be plugged so readily, and ...

A thorny problem for many organisations running a website is the registration process for new users. The marketing department wants to capture as much information about each new user as possible, but ...