The emerging OAuth 2.0 Web API authorization protocol, already deployed by Facebook, Salesforce.com and others, is coming under increased criticism for being too easy to use, and therefore to spoof by ...

Mobile app developers need to be aware of improper OAuth 2.0 implementations that have put one billion mobile apps at risk to takeover. Third-party applications that allow single sign-on via Facebook ...

Virtually all of Google’s APIs currently support OAuth 2.0, a framework for allowing third-party apps limited access to your data from other services, as their standard authentication mechanism.

After three years as lead author and editor of the OAuth 2.0 specification, Eran Hammer has stepped down from his role, withdrawn his name from the spec and even quit the OAuth working group ...

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The standard grew too far away from its roots as a simple Web authentication technology, author Eran Hammer-Lahav says, and now is insecure and overly broad. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...