The Internet Archive confirmed a third security breach on October 20, 2024, marking a series of escalating cyberattacks According to Forbes*, hackers exploited unrotated Zendesk API tokens to access the platform managing support tickets. Despite earlier warnings and multiple breaches this month, the organization failed to secure the system adequately, leaving the tokens vulnerable. As … More Internet Archive Breached Again
As APIs are a favorite target for threat actors, the challenge of securing the glue that holds various software elements together is taking on increasing urgency. The application programming interface (API) is an unsung hero of the digital revolution. It provides the glue that sticks together diverse software components in order to create new user … More All eyes on APIs: Top 3 API security risks and how to mitigate them
API-based data transfer is so rapid, there’s but little time to stop very bad things happening quickly. In the rush to integrate, these lightly defended computer-to-computer portals allow rapid data transfer between systems to enrich and display data across your digital fabric. But the lightly defended part can allow vast vacuuming up of data by … More RSA – APIs, your organization’s dedicated backdoors
The Brave Search engine takes on Google, promising to let users surf the web without leaving a trace. Brave, the company known for its eponymous web browser, has announced the launch of its own search engine dubbed Brave Search. The product, which is currently in beta and is built on an entirely independent search index, promises that … More Brave launches its own, privacy‑focused search engine
The information at risk of theft due to API flaws included people’s pictures, locations, dating preferences and Facebook data. Security vulnerabilities in Bumble, one of today’s most popular dating apps, could have exposed the personal information of its entire, almost 100 million-strong user-base. The bugs – which affected Bumble’s application programming interface (API) and stemmed … More Bumble bugs could have exposed personal data of all users
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