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Countering threats: Steps to take when developing APIs
2018-11-06 06:45

High profile data breaches resulting from faulty APIs continue to make headlines. In the last few months alone, T-Mobile’s data breach resulted in hackers stealing personal data of more than two million customers while Google shutdown the consumer version of Google+, citing a bug that exposed the personal profiles of up to 500,000 users, with the API at fault used by up to 438 applications. Privacy and security issues stemming from API development have continued … More → The post Countering threats: Steps to take when developing APIs appeared first on Help Net Security.


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