Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical "by design" weakness in the Model Context Protocol's (MCP) architecture that could pave the way for remote code execution and have a cascading ...

eShop sample applications have been updated and moved to https://github.com/dotnet/eShop. Active development will continue there. We also recommend the Reliable Web ...

Look, if you’re reading this in 2026, let’s drop the pretense. You didn’t choose WS-Federation for a shiny new greenfield project. You inherited it. You likely just took ownership of a legacy ...

Microsoft announced the first release candidate of .NET 10 is now available with go-live support--ready for production apps. The company said this update brings enhancements across ASP.NET Core, ...

A library to easily integrate Authentication in ASP.NET Core projects. Currently it supports JWT Bearer, API Key and Basic Authentication in both Controller-based and ...

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Give users only what they need—nothing more. If only admins should manage users, make sure your code enforces it. Use TLS 1.2+ for HTTPS connections. Encrypt sensitive data with AES-256. Never ...

What is Single Sign-On or SSO? Single Sign-On (SSO) is an authentication process that allows users to access multiple applications or systems with a single login credential. Instead of remembering and ...

Take advantage of authentication and authorization, API keys, rate limiting, CORS, API versioning, and other recommended practices to build secure and robust APIs in ASP.NET Core. Because our APIs ...

Take advantage of API key authentication to control the access of applications and services to your Web APIs in ASP.NET Core. There are several ways to secure your APIs in ASP.NET Core 7. You can use ...