Category - API Security Blog

Broken user authentication happens when the API is not properly validating access tokens.

API #3: Excessive Data Exposure Excessive data exposure refers to when an API exposes more information than necessary. Attackers can then use this extra information to perform attacks like identity t ...

October 19, 2021

I’m looking for a way to get the current time in milliseconds

I'm looking for a way to get the current time in milliseconds https://t.co/vW0brTGs2e ...

October 19, 2021

The Top 10 has a new look and feel, with some changes to the categories.

A05:2021-Security Misconfiguration moves up from #8 to #5 in terms of severity. The average incidence rate is 3.37% with an occurrence count of 274k CWEs mapped into this category. This category also ...

October 19, 2021

The first thing I did was to create a new project with the Meteor CLI: meteor create –example meteor-todos meteor add accounts-ui accounts-password accounts-facebook mongojs:mongo meteor run I then added the TodoMVC app as an npm package and ran it.

It worked! The app is running on my local machine, but not on Heroku. So I read up on how to deploy apps to Heroku, which turned out to be pretty simple. First you need a git repository for your code ...

October 19, 2021

I’m a pretty big fan of the new version of Google Maps.

I've been using it for about a week now, and I think it's great. It looks really nice, is fast as hell on my phone (Galaxy Nexus), and has some cool features that make me want to use it more than Appl ...

October 19, 2021

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October 19, 2021

I’m not sure what the best way to do this is, but I think that it’s worth doing.

The Problem When you have a large codebase with many modules, it can be hard to keep track of which dependencies are being used by your application and which ones are just being transitively pulled i ...

October 19, 2021

The main reason for this is that the compiler can’t tell whether a type variable will be used in an intersection or not.

It's possible to make it work, but it would require some kind of annotation on the type variables. I'm not sure if there are other reasons why this doesn't work out-of-the-box, but I think it's worth ...

October 19, 2021