06 May 2026 - 08:11
Category: IT Fail
The Infinite Token Of Insecurity
Every AI tool your employees touched has left behind a persistent OAuth token that refuses to die. We have essentially built a permanent back door and left the key under the mat.
Source: The Hacker News
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In our rush to let AI tools 'help' us, we have littered our Google and Microsoft environments with eternal OAuth tokens. These digital ghosts have no expiration dates, meaning a brief moment of employee curiosity has created a permanent entry point for any clever attacker. It turns out workflow automation is excellent at automating the destruction of our security posture while we weren't looking. To fix this self-inflicted wound, one must manually hunt down and revoke these tokens, a task as pleasant as counting sand. If only we spent as much time on governance as we do on installing apps.