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Eric Vogel's articles on authentication (here and here) in ASP.NET Core show what you have to do in order to authenticate a user against a local database. At the end of that process, you're ready to ...

Integration tests are used to check if the different parts of the application work as expected when they are assembled together. When working with integration tests, you will often want to skip ...

CAS is the Central Authentication Service offered by the Identity and Access Management team within Purdue System Security (PSS). Unlike web server assisted authentication and authorization, it ...

Using sessions is one of the most popular methods of authenticating users, whether it be forms authentication in ASP.NET and Java or $_SESSION based in PHP. If a user leaves their browser logged in on ...

A cookie is a piece of data typically used to store information about the user and is stored on the user’s computer. In most browsers each cookie is stored as a small file, but in Firefox they are ...

Microsoft released an emergency patch for its ASP.NET Core to fix a high-severity vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges on devices that use the Web development ...

ASP .NET MVC 5 is currently under developer preview, and is included in the recently-released Visual Studio 2013 Developer Preview. Today I'll be covering how to use the new Authentication Filters ...