The book is a great introduction to OAuth 2.

0 and OpenID Connect for developers who want to learn the concepts quickly. In less than 80 pages you will gain an overview of the capabilities of OAuth. You will learn the core concepts of OAuth. You ...

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The Internet is a dangerous place.

The internet has become an integral part of our lives, and we use it for everything from shopping to socializing. However, the internet can be a very dangerous place if you?re not careful. There are m ...

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AppSync has a built-in security model that allows you to define fine-grained access control rules for your GraphQL APIs.

You can use the Amplify Transform @auth directive in your schema definitions to easily create authorization rules and add additional authorization modes. GraphQL Security with AWS AppSync and Amplify ...

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SAST tools are not designed for API-centric applications and as such will produce inaccurate results.

API Security is a “black box” problem that requires human analysis The second major challenge with SAST is that it operates in a black box fashion, meaning the tool has no visibility into what happ ...

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I’m a security researcher and I’ve been working in the field for over 10 years.

My research has led to many high-profile bug disclosures, including: CVE-2014-6271 (Shellshock), CVE-2015-0235 (Ghost), and CVE-2016–5195 (Dirty COW). I also work on improving software security by f ...

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The best way to get a good picture of the current state of affairs is to look at the number of projects that have been created and compare it with the number of projects that have been closed.

This gives us an idea about how many people are actually using GitHub for their own purposes, as opposed to just looking around or contributing code without creating their own project. As you can see ...

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If you’re a developer, use the latest version of your IDE.

If you’re not a developer, use the latest version of Chrome or Firefox. The Problem: The Internet Explorer 6 Problem (IE6p) Internet Explorer 6 was released in 2001 and is still used by many people ...

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I’m a software engineer at Google, and I’ve been working on the Android team for over five years.

Before that, I worked on ChromeOS and was part of the original launch team. I love building new things and making them better. If you're interested in talking about anything from programming language ...

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