Techgenyz

API Testing: Critical Checks That Prevent Failure

API testing tests four critical areas: endpoints, payloads, authentication and error handling before software reaches ...
Bleeping Computer

GitHub can now auto-block commits containing API keys, auth tokens

GitHub has announced on Monday that it expanded its code hosting platform's secrets scanning capabilities for GitHub Advanced Security customers to block secret leaks automatically. Secret scanning is ...
Bleeping Computer

Google: Malware abusing API is standard token theft, not an API issue

Google is downplaying reports of malware abusing an undocumented Google Chrome API to generate new authentication cookies when previously stolen ones have expired. In late November 2023, ...
techtarget

4 API authentication methods to better protect data in transit

Protecting API communications has become a top priority for IT security teams as APIs rapidly become a popular target for hackers. This problem will only worsen as perimeterless deployments become ...
thenextweb.com

A popular OpenAI Codex tool with 29,000 weekly downloads has been quietly stealing developer tokens for a month

A popular npm package for OpenAI Codex with 29,000 weekly downloads has been stealing developer authentication tokens for a month. The same credential-theft chain also ran through two Android apps ...