Security News

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'...

Facebook photo API bug exposed users’ unpublished photos
2018-12-18 11:32

It affected up to 6.8 million users and up to 1,500 apps. “We're sorry this happened,” said Facebook with what must be acute apology fatigue.

Another API bug spurs Google to ditch consumer Google+ sooner than planned
2018-12-11 10:32

Google has unearthed another Google+ API bug, which prompted it to accelerate the sunsetting of all Google+APIs and that of the consumer version of Google+. The API bug The bug was introduced in...

Google+ to Shut Down Early After New API Flaw Hits 52.5 Million Users
2018-12-10 21:03

Google today revealed that Google+ has suffered another massive data breach, forcing the tech giant to shut down its struggling social network four months earlier than its actual scheduled date,...