2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: API1:2023 Broken Object Level Authorization

Welcome to the 2nd post in our weekly series on the new 2023 OWASP API Security Top-10 list, with a particular focus on security practitioners. This post will focus on API1:2023 Broken Object Level Authorization. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the...

Learn from the T-Mobile API Breach to Improve Your API Security Program in 2023

A CISO’s job has never been more challenging. Engineering teams move fast, especially as organizations are accelerating their digital transformation efforts. The tech stack is exploding and varies greatly across the organization. And there is a surge of internal, external, and partner APIs. It’s...

Top 3 APIs Vulnerabilities: Why Apps are Pwned by Cyberattackers

Application programming interfaces APIs have become the glue that holds today’s apps together. There’s an API to turn on the kitchen lights while still in bed. There’s an API to change the song playing on your house speakers. Whether the app is on your mobile device, entertainment system or garag...

Coursera Flunks API Test in Researchers’ Security Exam

Researchers have discovered multiple application programming interface API issues in Coursera, the online learning platform used by 82 million learners and hundreds of Fortune 500 companies. On Thursday, the Checkmarx Security Research Team published a report on its findings, which included user...

mHealth Apps Expose Millions to Cyberattacks

Some 23 million mobile health mHealth application users are exposed to application programming interface API attacks that could expose sensitive information, according to researchers. Generally speaking, APIs are an intermediary between applications that defines how they can talk to one another a...