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How to Secure REST APIs
REST APIs keep failing the same way: BOLA, weak auth, shadow endpoints. Real breaches (T-Mobile, Optus, Peloton) and concrete fixes for each.
Mar 10, 20267 min read
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What is GraphQL Security
GraphQL's flexibility creates unique risks—excessive data exposure, DoS via nested queries, and broken field-level authorization. Here's how to defend it.
Mar 10, 20267 min read
Application Security
OWASP API Security Top 10 Explained
The 2023 OWASP API Security Top 10 explained with real breaches — T-Mobile, Optus, Peloton — plus what changed since 2019 and how to prioritize fixes.
Mar 10, 20267 min read
Application Security
API Security Misconfiguration
API misconfigurations exposed 37M T-Mobile and 9.8M Optus accounts without a single exploit. Here's why it keeps happening and how to stop it.
Mar 10, 20266 min read
Application Security
Unsafe Consumption of APIs
OWASP's API10:2023 exposes a blind spot: teams sanitize user input but blindly trust API responses from partners, vendors, and internal services.
Mar 9, 20267 min read
Application Security
What is Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA)
BOLA lets attackers swap an object ID in an API request to pull someone else's data. Here's how it works, real breaches, and how to stop it.
Mar 9, 20267 min read
Application Security
What is an API Gateway and Its Security Role
An API gateway centralizes auth, routing, and rate limiting for every request — get it wrong and, as T-Mobile and Optus learned, millions of records leak.
Mar 9, 20268 min read
Application Security
What is Rate Limiting
Rate limiting caps requests per client to stop credential stuffing and scraping. Learn how it works, the algorithms, and real breaches it prevents.
Mar 9, 20266 min read
Application Security
What is API Authentication
API authentication verifies who's calling your API before authorization decides what they can do — here's how it works, common methods, and where it fails.
Mar 8, 20267 min read
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