OpenID is an open, decentralized, open-source framework for user-centric digital identity. Think about all the accounts you have online: blogs, wikis, to-do lists, photo galleries. The list is endless ...

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 ...

The OpenID Foundation Wednesday unveiled a program to certify implementations of its OpenID Connect authentication mechanisms as a step toward ensuring an interoperable identity infrastructure that ...

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, ...

Google is about to announce OpenID log-in functionality for enterprise users of its Apps productivity suite. The search giant has already adopted the authentication standard — whereby a single log-in ...

As of yesterday afternoon, AOL has implemented Vidoop’s visual authentication system as part of its OpenID initiative, which was formally launched in February 2007. Vidoop, a startup that replaces ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over 16 months after first declaring its support for the OpenID authentication platform, Microsoft has finally implemented it for the first time, allowing for OpenID logins on its Health Vault medical ...

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