The OpenID Foundation Wednesday blessed the final version of OpenID Connect, an authentication protocol that is being called a cornerstone for scalable, standardized identity-based access control ...

A security researcher has uncovered serious security vulnerabilities in the technologies used by many websites to authenticate users via third-party websites. A blog posted late last week revealed the ...

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 ...