Mastering API Security: Learn the 3 Key Principles at Kong API Summit 2023

In an era where APIs Application Programming Interfaces are the lifeblood of digital interactions, the need for robust API security has never been more critical. According to Gartner research, a staggering 90% of web-enabled applications are predicted to harbor vulnerabilities related to APIs. To...

2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: API8:2023 Security Misconfiguration

Welcome to the 9th 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 API8:2023 Security Misconfiguration. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the impact and...

Take Care of Orphan APIs with Wallarm

The Wallarm API Discovery module has been further enhanced to enable customers to identify Orphan APIs and bring them under management. In this post we’ll discuss what Orphan APIs are, why they matter, and how to regain control of your API portfolio. What Are Orphan APIs? Orphan APIs are endpoint...

Find APIs Hiding in the Shadows

What’s hiding in the shadows? It’s a well understood reality that unmanaged IT assets tend to be unmonitored IT assets, and that both introduce risk. Whether it’s a forgotten about application, or an unmanaged cloud storage volume, you can’t protect what you don’t know about. Attackers thrive on...

Imperva Unveils Latest API Security Enhancements

Imperva is continuing to evolve its API Security offering to help customers better protect their APIs, wherever they are, and to meet changing market requirements. Since launching API Security in March 2022, we continued investing in our API Security offering with the goal of simplifying the...

Predictions for 2023 from Latest API Threat Research | API Security Newsletter

March has arrived and is roaring like a very confused lion, at least in the northern hemisphere. And much like in the wild, brood production is increasing. Weve already seen some fruits of that labor, such as the Q4-2022 and 2022 Year-End ThreatStats™ Report, and some very tasty product upgrades...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

github.com/eolinker/apinto-dashboard is vulnerable to cross-site scriptingXSS attacks. A remote authenticated attacker is able to inject and execute malicious JavaScript on the victim's machine due to insufficient checks in /api/discoveries/ file...

Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty shipped with IBM WebSphere Application Server Patterns are vulnerable to Clickjacking (CVE-2021-39038)

Summary IBM WebSphere Application Server is vulnerable to clickjacking when REST API discovery is configured through the WebSphere administrative console Web Container settings to enable the API Discovery service, or through IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty features mpOpenAPI-1.0,...

Security Bulletin: WebSphere Application Server shipped with Jazz for Service Management (JazzSM) is vulnerable to Clickjacking (CVE-2021-39038)

Summary IBM WebSphere Application Server is vulnerable to clickjacking when REST API discovery is configured through the WebSphere administrative console Web Container settings to enable the API Discovery service, or through IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty features mpOpenAPI-1.0,...

Discovering shadow APIs with a API firewall

Shadow APIs can be defined as active endpoints that you are not aware of. Some APIs are deployed but never documented. Others are services that don’t have an owner anymore. Some are even old v2 versions that have been deprecated for years, yet still exposed. Long story short: these APIs are not...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered in Zammad before 4.1.1. An admin can discover the application secret via the API...

Wallarm API Discovery: Discover API endpoints automatically and secure them

What do you know about your APIs? Why are the vulnerable v2 and v3 still exposed if they are deprecated for almost a year? What else is exposed and you don’t even know? Are Swagger specs up to date? Teaser: Surely not. A lot of questions, right? Meet Wallarm’s latest feature for API Discovery and...

Akamai Named Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Fourth Consecutive Year

Gartner published its 2020 Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls WAFi and named Akamai a Leader for the fourth consecutive year. Gartner's high distinction is market recognition of our completeness of vision and ability to execute. This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a...

What's New in Web Security

With Akamai's web security portfolio, the top focus this October is on the web application firewall WAF, with exciting new capabilities: API Discovery and Adaptive Security Profiles. Along with the rest of the industry, Akamai has observed a long-term shift in the applications that we're...

API Discovery and Profiling -- Visibility to Protection

APIs have become a dominant mechanism in the modern web, allowing organizations to create powerful web and mobile experiences, while exposing back-end data and logic to create new and innovative offerings. Protecting internet-facing APIs -- an emerging practice over the past few years -- is the...

What's New in Web Security

With Akamai's web security portfolio, the top focus this October is on the web application firewall WAF, with exciting new capabilities: API Discovery and Adaptive Security Profiles...

CVE-2020-14458

Mattermost Server before 5.19.0 is affected. The issue allows attackers to discover private channels through the get channel by name API (MMSA-2020-0004), an information-disclosure vulnerability. Affected product is Mattermost Server; vulnerable component is the get channel by name API endpoint. ...

QSC18: API Security, Enabling Innovation Without Enabling Attacks and Data Breaches

Without APIs, it would be near impossible to see enterprises being able to digitally transform themselves. After all, APIs are the connective-tissue between applications and systems and they make the management, automation and consumption of technology possible at scale. APIs are what enable...

Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities affect IBM WebSphere Applciation Server bundled with IBM WebSphere Application Server Patterns and IBM WebSphere Application Server for Cloud

Summary There is a potential information disclosure vulnerability in Admin Center for IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty. There is a potential for weaker than expected security when using the WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile API Discovery feature and Swagger documents. There is ...

Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities affect IBM WebSphere Application Server for Bluemix

Summary There is an XML External Entity Injection XXE vulnerability in the Apache Standard Taglibs that affects IBM WebSphere Application Server. There is an information disclosure vulnerability in IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty for any users of the JAX-RS API. There is a potential for...