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If You’re Only Doing WAF, You’re Doing API Security Wrong

ForAllSecure

In May 2021, Peloton, the exercise company, found that its API was not authenticating users properly. To address issues such as authentication misconfigurations, organizations have been quick to adopt Web Application Firewalls (WAFs). It would be a shame if the API were non-performative, or worse if the API actually leaked data.

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ChatGPT could make bioterrorism horrifyingly easy

Vox

In a recent exercise at MIT, it took just one hour for ChatGPT to instruct non-scientist students about four potential pandemic pathogens, including options for how they could be acquired by anyone lacking the skills to create them in the lab, and how to avoid detection by obtaining genetic material from providers who do not screen orders.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hunting The Next Heartbleed

ForAllSecure

I mean, it was open source, right? And this is open source software, meaning that there’s some developers or some project behind it that has already built out the basics of what you need to put it into your code and start using it. And is it better to be open source or commercial. No shame in that.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hunting The Next Heartbleed

ForAllSecure

I mean, it was open source, right? And this is open source software, meaning that there’s some developers or some project behind it that has already built out the basics of what you need to put it into your code and start using it. And is it better to be open source or commercial. No shame in that.

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The Mayhem for API Difference - A ZAP - Mayhem for API Scan Comparison

ForAllSecure

ZAP is an open-source web application security scanner that can be used by both those new to application security as well as professional penetration testers. The response will contain the token you will use for other parts of the exercise. { "auth_token": "eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJleHAiOjE2NjIwNjkxNTIsImlhdCI6MTY2MjA2OTA5Miwic3ViIjoiZm9vIn0.7aB_94z7FmcGYNTaL67DW47Ht2WTBKlQ85eCbvmlBLM",

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The Mayhem for API Difference - A ZAP - API Scan Comparison

ForAllSecure

ZAP is an open-source web application security scanner that can be used by both those new to application security as well as professional penetration testers. The response will contain the token you will use for other parts of the exercise. { "auth_token": "eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJleHAiOjE2NjIwNjkxNTIsImlhdCI6MTY2MjA2OTA5Miwic3ViIjoiZm9vIn0.7aB_94z7FmcGYNTaL67DW47Ht2WTBKlQ85eCbvmlBLM",

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hunting The Next Heartbleed

ForAllSecure

I mean, it was open source, right? And this is open source software, meaning that there’s some developers or some project behind it that has already built out the basics of what you need to put it into your code and start using it. And is it better to be open source or commercial. No shame in that.