SPIFFE focuses on who a workload is. It issues cryptographic identities to services and workloads so they can prove their authenticity to each other without relying on stored secrets. OAuth focuses on ...

Since the beginning of distributed personal computer networks, one of the toughest computer security nuts to crack has been to provide a seamless, single sign-on (SSO) access experience among multiple ...

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 ...

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 ...

Federation is a model of identity management that distributes the various individual components of an identity operation amongst different actors. The presumption being that the jobs can be ...

OAuth redirection is being repurposed as a phishing delivery path. Trusted authentication flows are weaponized to move users ...