VentureBeat

Hackers use stolen OAuth access tokens to breach dozens of organization’s internal systems

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Last week, GitHub Security researchers ...
Bleeping Computer

GitHub: Attacker breached dozens of orgs using stolen OAuth tokens

GitHub revealed today that an attacker is using stolen OAuth user tokens (issued to Heroku and Travis-CI) to download data from private repositories. Since this campaign was first spotted on April 12, ...
Bleeping Computer

GitHub notifies owners of private repos stolen using OAuth tokens

GitHub says it notified all organizations believed to have had data stolen from their private repositories by attackers abusing compromised OAuth user tokens issued to Heroku and Travis-CI. "As of ...
CSOonline

What is OAuth? How the open authorization framework works

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 ...
ZDNet

Heroku fesses up to customer password theft due to OAuth token attack

Heroku has explained why it emailed users with a sudden password reset warning earlier this week, and how it was due to the theft of OAuth tokens from GitHub. "[Our investigation] revealed that the ...