⤷ Title: Behind Every Great Rate Limiter: Choosing the Right Algorithm
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𐀪 Author: Gertrude Abagale
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ⴵ Time: Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:35:15 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #design_systems #secure_by_design #redis #api_security #distributed_systems
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𐀪 Author: Gertrude Abagale
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ⴵ Time: Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:35:15 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #design_systems #secure_by_design #redis #api_security #distributed_systems
Medium
Behind Every Great Rate Limiter: Choosing the Right Algorithm
In the first article, we explored why rate limiting is one of the most important security controls protecting modern applications. Now…
⤷ Title: Your Auth Middleware Is Too Late. Here’s What Should Run Before It.
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𐀪 Author: Yoosuf Husain
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ⴵ Time: Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:51:35 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #backend_development #api_security #engineering #nodejs #software_architecture
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𐀪 Author: Yoosuf Husain
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ⴵ Time: Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:51:35 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #backend_development #api_security #engineering #nodejs #software_architecture
Medium
Your Auth Middleware Is Too Late. Here’s What Should Run Before It.
Most Node.js apps have an auth middleware. You write a protect function, drop it on your routes and call it done. That works fine until you…
⤷ Title: Why Your API Can Still Crash Despite Rate Limiting: What Most Developers Miss
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𐀪 Author: Hafiz Muhammad Asad
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ⴵ Time: Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:53:22 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #cybersecurity #backend_development #api_security #software_architecture #api_rate_limiting
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𐀪 Author: Hafiz Muhammad Asad
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ⴵ Time: Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:53:22 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #cybersecurity #backend_development #api_security #software_architecture #api_rate_limiting
Medium
Why Your API Can Still Crash Despite Rate Limiting: What Most Developers Miss
Rate limiting is one of the first security mechanisms developers implement. Yet APIs still go down every day because modern attackers know…
⤷ Title: Locking the Front Door: How We Secured a Partner API Before Publishing It
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𐀪 Author: MUKKU CHANDRASEKHAR REDDY
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ⴵ Time: Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:45:26 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #azure #tlm #backend_development #api #api_security
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𐀪 Author: MUKKU CHANDRASEKHAR REDDY
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ⴵ Time: Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:45:26 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #azure #tlm #backend_development #api #api_security
Medium
Locking the Front Door: How We Secured a Partner API Before Publishing It
An internal API has an easy life. It sits inside a private network, and only our own services call it. Nobody outside the company can reach…
⤷ Title: Top 25 Website Security Misconfigurations (2026)
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𐀪 Author: Vaibhavk
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ⴵ Time: Sat, 08 Aug 2026 04:35:18 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #api_security #ai_or_llm_security #sbom #website_misconfigurations #data_breach_response_plan
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𐀪 Author: Vaibhavk
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ⴵ Time: Sat, 08 Aug 2026 04:35:18 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #api_security #ai_or_llm_security #sbom #website_misconfigurations #data_breach_response_plan
Medium
Top 25 Website Security Misconfigurations (2026)
Security misconfigurations remain the #1 most exploited vulnerability class — not because developers don’t care, but because modern web…
⤷ Title: Your API Is Not Your System
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𐀪 Author: Andrews Ferreira
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ⴵ Time: Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:01:01 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #application_security #offensive_security #api_security #threat_modeling #api_security_testing
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𐀪 Author: Andrews Ferreira
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ⴵ Time: Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:01:01 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #application_security #offensive_security #api_security #threat_modeling #api_security_testing
Medium
Your API Is Not Your System
Why attackers model workflows while engineers secure endpoints
⤷ Title: When the Attacker Is an AI
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𐀪 Author: Prophaze
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ⴵ Time: Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:04:31 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #artificial_intelligence #cybersecurity #api_security #hugging_face #openai
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𐀪 Author: Prophaze
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ⴵ Time: Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:04:31 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #artificial_intelligence #cybersecurity #api_security #hugging_face #openai
Medium
When the Attacker Is an AI
The OpenAI–Hugging Face breach wasn’t really just an AI safety story. It was also an API security one.
⤷ Title: Stop Trusting Bearer Tokens: Build a DPoP-Protected API in .NET 10
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𐀪 Author: Michael Maurice
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ⴵ Time: Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:54:49 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #api_security #oauth #dotnet #aspnetcore #cybersecurity
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𐀪 Author: Michael Maurice
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ⴵ Time: Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:54:49 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #api_security #oauth #dotnet #aspnetcore #cybersecurity
Medium
Stop Trusting Bearer Tokens: Build a DPoP-Protected API in .NET 10
Bind OAuth access tokens to a client key, validate per-request proofs, and stop replay attacks with ASP.NET Core.
⤷ Title: An AI Agent Was Asked to Book a Gym Class. It Hacked the Website Instead.
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𐀪 Author: inprogrammer
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ⴵ Time: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:53:48 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #ai #cybersecurity #api_security #artificial_intelligence #software_engineering
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𐀪 Author: inprogrammer
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ⴵ Time: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:53:48 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #ai #cybersecurity #api_security #artificial_intelligence #software_engineering
Medium
An AI Agent Was Asked to Book a Gym Class. It Hacked the Website Instead.
I build backend APIs for a living, and I still had to read the headline twice. A guy in Melbourne asked his AI agent to grab him a spot in…
⤷ Title: Why Bug Hunters Skip Role-Based API Testing And How I Turned a Writer Token Into an SSRF
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𐀪 Author: CypherNova1337
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ⴵ Time: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:04:39 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #bug_bounty #hacking #cybersecurity #api_security #penetration_testing
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𐀪 Author: CypherNova1337
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ⴵ Time: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:04:39 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #bug_bounty #hacking #cybersecurity #api_security #penetration_testing
Medium
Why Bug Hunters Skip Role-Based API Testing And How I Turned a Writer Token Into an SSRF
Almost nobody tests authorization at the role level.
⤷ Title: Why the Top 5% of Engineers Think About API Security Very Differently Than Everyone Else?
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𐀪 Author: Lets Learn Now
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ⴵ Time: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:41:01 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #software_development #microservices #security #software_engineering #api_security
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𐀪 Author: Lets Learn Now
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ⴵ Time: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:41:01 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #software_development #microservices #security #software_engineering #api_security
Medium
Why the Top 5% of Engineers Think About API Security Very Differently Than Everyone Else?
How Fortune 100 Companies Really Secure Their APIs
⤷ Title: Bank of Baroda Cybersecurity Incident: What Organizations Can Learn About DPDP Compliance
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𐀪 Author: Vaibhavk
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ⴵ Time: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:22:43 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #api_security #data_breach_response_plan #sbom #ai_security
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𐀪 Author: Vaibhavk
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ⴵ Time: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:22:43 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #api_security #data_breach_response_plan #sbom #ai_security
Medium
Bank of Baroda Cybersecurity Incident: What Organizations Can Learn About DPDP Compliance
What Happened
⤷ Title: An Evolution in HTTP: The QUERY Method
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𐀪 Author: PriOFF
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ⴵ Time: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:49:42 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #information_security #web_security #api_security #https #cybersecurity
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𐀪 Author: PriOFF
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ⴵ Time: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:49:42 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #information_security #web_security #api_security #https #cybersecurity
Medium
An Evolution in HTTP: The QUERY Method
A Brand New HTTP Method That Solved the Complex Problem of the Internet and Became an Evolution
⤷ Title: How Insecure Client-Side State Management Led to a Critical BFLA in a Healthcare Platform
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𐀪 Author: Mohamed Mejahed
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ⴵ Time: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:13:53 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #penetration_testing #api_security #owasp_top_10 #application_security #web_security
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𐀪 Author: Mohamed Mejahed
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ⴵ Time: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:13:53 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #penetration_testing #api_security #owasp_top_10 #application_security #web_security
Medium
How Insecure Client-Side State Management Led to a Critical BFLA in a Healthcare Platform
During a recent authorized security assessment of a live (Private), AI-powered healthcare management platform, I identified a critical…
⤷ Title: The APIs You Can’t See: Closing the Internal Blind Spot
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𐀪 Author: Riddhi Sanghvi
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ⴵ Time: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:03:54 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #application_security #claude_code #cybersecurity #network_security #api_security
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𐀪 Author: Riddhi Sanghvi
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ⴵ Time: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:03:54 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #application_security #claude_code #cybersecurity #network_security #api_security
Medium
The APIs You Can’t See: Closing the Internal Blind Spot
Most API security programs are built around one assumption: if an API matters, it eventually shows up in traffic that crosses the…
⤷ Title: Stop leaving API keys in .env files
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𐀪 Author: nickelnox
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ⴵ Time: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:23:09 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #ai #secretmanagement #api_security #keychain
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𐀪 Author: nickelnox
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ⴵ Time: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:23:09 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #ai #secretmanagement #api_security #keychain
Medium
Stop leaving API keys in .env files
Plaintext .env files are a narrow but real exposure — committed to git, synced to cloud storage, indexed by backup tools.
⤷ Title: crAPI Walkthrough: Testing The OWASP API Security Top 10
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𐀪 Author: Amarachi Onyekachi
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ⴵ Time: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:00:03 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #owasp_api_security_top_10 #ethical_hacking #api_security #penetration_testing #cybersecurity
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𐀪 Author: Amarachi Onyekachi
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ⴵ Time: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:00:03 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #owasp_api_security_top_10 #ethical_hacking #api_security #penetration_testing #cybersecurity
Medium
crAPI Walkthrough: Testing The OWASP API Security Top 10
A Practical Security Assessment of OWASP crAPI: Identifying and Exploiting API Security Vulnerabilities
⤷ Title: Zero Trust Security for Mobile Banking: Complete Enterprise Guide
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𐀪 Author: Protectt.ai
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ⴵ Time: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:57:55 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #zero_trust_security #api_security #mobile_security_android #mobile_security_services #mobile_banking_app
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𐀪 Author: Protectt.ai
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ⴵ Time: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:57:55 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #zero_trust_security #api_security #mobile_security_android #mobile_security_services #mobile_banking_app
Medium
Zero Trust Security for Mobile Banking: Complete Enterprise Guide
Learn how Zero Trust Mobile Security protects banking apps with continuous authentication, API security, app shielding, and fraud…
⤷ Title: API Security Best Practices for Modern SaaS Apps
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𐀪 Author: Ujjwal Tripathi
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ⴵ Time: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:52:20 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #cybersecurity #saas #api_security #software_architecture #technology
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𐀪 Author: Ujjwal Tripathi
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ⴵ Time: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:52:20 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #cybersecurity #saas #api_security #software_architecture #technology
Medium
Securing APIs in Modern SaaS Applications: Best Practices
T-Mobile, Optus, and Peloton faced API breaches. Learn the API security best practices that could have prevented these attacks.
⤷ Title: APIs in 2026: The New Digital Currency
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𐀪 Author: Jits Rit
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ⴵ Time: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:21:50 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #api_security #ai #api_development #graphql #rest_api_design
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𐀪 Author: Jits Rit
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ⴵ Time: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:21:50 GMT
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⌗ Tags: #api_security #ai #api_development #graphql #rest_api_design
Medium
APIs in 2026: The New Digital Currency
How design, security, and monetization are redefining what an API is for