Cybersecurity experts share insights on securing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), essential to a connected tech world.

MCUs are ideal MQTT clients because the protocol is lightweight and designed for low-bandwidth, low-RAM environments.

IBM urged customers to patch a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in its API Connect enterprise platform that could allow attackers to access apps remotely. API Connect is an application ...

The key difference between the terms REST versus RESTful is that REST refers to a philosophy about the architecture and design of web services, while the term RESTful refers to any API that properly ...

ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. However, “minimal” doesn’t mean minimal security. Minimal APIs ...

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Documentation clearly tells that basic auth is used "to protect unsafe REST API endpoints". All GET endpoints are safe.

While looking into some API caching things today, I discovered that api.data.gov is unable to cache API responses if the API backend is configured to use HTTP basic auth. This issue only crops up when ...