Protecting APIs at Scale: Akamai Introduces Security Posture Center and Code-to-Runtime Mapping

Helping organizations understand and enforce API security posture at scale, Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) today introduced Security Posture Center and enhanced APIs-from-code capabilities. Together, these ...
InfoWorld

Build an authentication handler for a minimal API in ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. However, “minimal” doesn’t mean minimal security. Minimal APIs ...
CSOonline

Why API attacks are increasing and how to avoid them

Australian energy company Jemena has been using APIs, in some form, for about a decade. Its use of APIs — application programming interfaces — has jumped recently and is expected to increase fivefold ...
InfoWorld

How to improve API security in ASP.NET Core

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 ...
Bleeping Computer

Hackers abused API to verify millions of Authy MFA phone numbers

Twilio has confirmed that an unsecured API endpoint allowed threat actors to verify the phone numbers of millions of Authy multi-factor authentication users, potentially making them vulnerable to SMS ...
Linux Journal

WebAuthn Web Authentication with YubiKey 5

A look at the recently released YubiKey 5 hardware authenticator series and how web authentication with the new WebAuthn API leverages devices like the YubiKey for painless website registration and ...