Security News

Live Webinar: API Security - Unlock the Secrets
2019-03-20 18:33

The application programming interface (API) has become the basic building block of business allowing applications and software to talk and share data. APIs are the critical component for...

42Crunch unveils new platform to discover API vulnerabilities and protect them from attacks
2019-03-20 02:00

42Crunch, the leading API security company, officially announced the release of the 42Crunch API Platform, the world’s first API security cloud platform to discover vulnerabilities in APIs and...

Google Open Sources Sandboxed API
2019-03-19 06:56

Google on Monday announced that it has made available its Sandboxed API as open source in an effort to make it easier for software developers to create secure products. read more

API Fortress and Axway automate API testing across the agile product development lifecycle
2019-02-28 23:15

API Fortress, a leader in continuous API testing, providing a complete suite of cloud or on-premises tools for agile development and CI/CD workflows, announces a beta release of an integration...

Modern browser APIs can be abused for hijacking device resources
2019-02-27 14:18

Powerful capabilities of modern browser APIs could be misused by attackers to take control of a site visitor’s browser, add it to their botnet, and use it for a variety of malicious actions,...

Salt Security Emerges From Stealth With API Protection Solution
2019-01-29 14:43

Salt Security emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday with a solution designed to identify and prevent API attacks, and $10 million in funding. read more

Threat Stack announces new API for streamlined DevOps and security workflows
2019-01-25 03:15

Threat Stack released a new API that will give customers the ability to create, deploy, augment, and tune security rules directly within their existing DevOps and security tools. Threat Stack...

Fighting Fire with Fire: API Automation Risks
2019-01-24 22:03

A look at API attack trends such as the current (and failing) architectural designs for addressing security of these API transactions.

API cybersecurity solution from Ping Identity protects organizations against API threats
2019-01-24 02:00

Ping Identity has made several updates to PingIntelligence for APIs, its AI-powered API cybersecurity solution. These latest enhancements include an AI-based cloud trial, the ability to detect new...

FYI: Twitter's API still spews enough metadata to reveal exactly where you lived, worked
2019-01-08 06:58

Old tweets betray sensitive data under new tools Analysis Researchers have demonstrated yet again that location metadata from Twitter posts can be used to infer private information like users'...