The consumer keys and secrets, which function similarly to a username ... take your app’s consumer key and use the OAuth API pretending to be your application (eg. I can make API calls ...

Twitter has been broadcasting for quite some time that it would be making changes to the API that ... who create apps that perform traditional 3rd party Twitter client functions (like Tweetbot ...

Google is locking down API access to Gmail ... individual users of these apps, telling them the apps will no longer work starting July 15. The new policy closes off OAuth access to Gmail data ...

“The access token is used to make API calls on behalf of the ... users are getting more and more used to cloud apps and signing into them using the OAuth function, Girling warned.

A new report released today by application programming ... industry on the nature of potential OAuth implementation errors and how to close these API-based security gaps to better protect data ...

Joining a growing number of enterprise and consumer-facing Web services, Google has added support in Google Apps for the OAuth authorization ... and passwords for each API call.

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.