I am writing this article on the iPad Mini using the Editorial app. This app is connected to my Dropbox account and automatically synchronizes my work. When I come home I can continue editing on my ...

During the past several decades, Web pages have changed from being static, mostly informational tools to full-blown applications. Coinciding with this development, Web developers have created ...

As if social media wasn't already, well, social enough, a relatively new open protocol for securely sharing information between web sites, called OAuth, has received a major boost for broad adoption.

A security hole in OAuth, the open-source protocol that acts as a "valet key" for users' log-in information, has led services like Twitter and Yahoo to temporarily pull their support, CNET News has ...

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 ...

Booking.com, one of the world’s largest online travel agencies, recently patched a vulnerability in its implementation of the OAuth protocol that could have allowed attackers to gain access to ...

We recently asked all Twitter third party app developers to get rid of asking for user credentials and kindly switch to delegated authentication based on the open OAuth protocol. Today we want to ...