Traveling with OAuth – Account Takeover on Booking.com

OAuth (Open Authorization) is a modern, open authorization standard designed to allow cross-application access delegation – for example, allowing your application to read data from your Facebook profile. Combined with the proper extensions, OAuth can also be used for authentication – for example, to log into your application using Google credentials.

Since its first introduction in 2006, OAuth has gained tremendous popularity. Recent studies show that about 90% of the users preferred social login over traditional email registration on websites. …

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