I really enjoy reversing APIs of online services and analyzing them. Trying to understand how they’ve built their systems feels like a…

APIs are like doors into your system. If you don’t secure them properly, attackers will find a way in.

In operating systems, not every threat is loud. Some are silent, subtle, and buried deep in the process table. Zombie processes fall…

During the rate-limiter implementation, I had to go through the external API security code in our project, and it was utter bizarre, A…

(An architect’s guide to security-critical design failures)

Introduction

Data privacy is the single greatest challenge in modern enterprise AI integration. When users input queries directly into public Large…

A Sliding Window Counter is a rate-limiting algorithm. It is used to control how many requests a user can send in a specific period of…

A webhook is just a URL that believes whatever hits it. In 2023, that single assumption let attackers fake payment confirmations at a…

When we think about cybersecurity, our minds often go to familiar concepts like encryption, passwords, firewalls, and multi-factor…

In the first article, we explored why rate limiting is one of the most important security controls protecting modern applications. Now…