Forms authentication uses standard HTML forms for entering credentials, so you send the user name and password over the network as plain text. This is an obvious security risk—anyone who intercepts ...

Exchange Server 2003 offers a feature called "form-based authentication" that can make your Outlook Web Access more secure. When you enable this authentication method, OWA stores the user’s name and ...

Why an overlooked data entry point is creating outsized cyber risk and compliance exposure for financial institutions.

On Tuesday, the Liberty Alliance Project, a global consortium for open federated identity and Web services standards, announced the formation of a global, cross-organizational expert group focused on ...

I want to create a standard ASP.NET login page to be shared by several applications.<BR><BR>I've set up a login page that checks against hashed and salted passwords stored in a SQL table. When a user ...

Folks,<BR><BR>I have a common login app written in ASP.NET 1.1 that I share across several 1.1 apps. Each app has the proper forms authentication and grabs the cookie created by the login app, and all ...

So I've got an ASP.NET Web Forms application that needs maintaining. And it's still running the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. The size, complexity and availability of external components from ...

We wouldn’t consider Windows authentication as a feasible strategy as you cannot expose your service over the Internet if you leverage Windows authentication. Forms authentication uses the ASP.Net ...

The Liberty Alliance Project, a global consortium for open federated identity and Web services standards, today announced the formation of a global, cross-organizational expert group focused on ...