With the popularity of APIs comes the question of their security. If APIs leak data or can be an entry point for an attack, what good is the security strategy of the applications they connect to?

In this Help Net Security interview, Ankita Gupta, CEO at Akto, discusses API security best practices, advocating for authentication protocols like OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, strict HTTPS ...

I saw a post from a user on X. They received an email from OpenAI stating that "suspicious activity was detected with your ...

IntroductionHello, this is YKOBA.First, I will start with a story about my own failure. I was using the Google API without ...

Google API keys for services like Maps embedded in accessible client-side code could be used to authenticate to the Gemini AI assistant and access private data. Researchers found nearly 3,000 such ...

Identity security used to focus primarily on people. That model is no longer sufficient. Modern organizations rely on service accounts, API keys, automated ...