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Given the reliance of today’s digital world on APIs and the fact that attacks targeting them continue to rise sharply, API security cannot be an afterthought. Given the increasing reliance of today’s digital world on APIs and the fact that cyberattacks targeting them continue to rise sharply, API security cannot be an afterthought. Here is how a poorly protected application programming interface creates security risks, what the main API security risks are, and what organizations…

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by Paul Ducklin Researchers at firmware and supply-chain security company Eclypsium claim to have found what they have rather dramatically dubbed a “backdoor” in hundreds of motherboard models from well-known hardware maker Gigabyte. In fact, Eclypsium’s headline refers to it not merely as a backdoor, but all in uppper case as a BACKDOOR. The good news is that this seems to be a legitimate feature that has been badly implemented, so it’s not a backdoor…

A roundup of some of the handiest tools for the collection and analysis of publicly available data from Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms Social media sites are a near-bottomless source of information that almost anyone can use for security and intelligence research, as well as for marketing campaigns. The platforms allow anybody to learn more about other people, their interests, experiences and affiliations, while organizations can easily scour the sites to gain insights…

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 experiences. But in providing a direct path to back-end databases, APIs are also an attractive target for threat actors. It…