An intermediary is provided between the API server and user devices/clients that modifies application programming interface interactions to disrupt automated attacks on those client-server interactions, at least as to those API interfaces that are known to be human-interaction API interfaces. The human...
An API, or application programming interface, is a set of rules and protocols that allows applications to exchange data, perform actions, and interact in a well-documented way. When a request is made—for a weather update, say—the API processes the request, executes the necessary actions, an...
Yazanbot (Boshmaf et al., 2013) used HTTP-request templates to conduct an unsupported API call by recording the exact HTTP requests that are used to carry out such a call. Moreover, friend injection attacks (Huber, Mulazzani, & Weippl, 2010) allow stealth infiltration ofOSNsby tapping ne...
Attacks Specific to This Client Since the release of Outlook 2000, a number of weaknesses and vulnerabilities have been discovered. These vulnerabilities have become a prime target for malicious attacks. Because Outlook is part of Office 2000, it can also become the victim of vulnerabilities within...
As follows from the results of the Imvision "API Security is Coming"[13], as the number of attacks on application programming interfaces grows (API), the security associated with their implementation and use is an increasing concern for organization leaders, reportsZDNet[14]. ...
An API, or application programming interface, is a set of rules and protocols that allows applications to exchange data, perform actions, and interact in a well-documented way. When a request is made—for a weather update, say—the API processes the request, executes the necessary actions, an...
Achieving this goal will assist in the prevention of various attacks against individual applications and mitigate the possibility that such attacks will compromise the security of the system. Although these goals can be accomplished in some degree today by requiring administrators to use two accounts, ...
For information on Luring Attacks, see "Link Demands" in Chapter 8, "Code Access Security in Practice."Search your code for the ".LinkDemand" string to identify where link demands are used. They can only be used declaratively. An example is shown in the following code fragment:...
Without data validation, the application is open to numerous attacks, and may break easily (for example, the user types "not a number" into a field expecting a numeric value). Validating user input not only prevents common problems, it also increases application security....
An API, or application programming interface, is a set of rules and protocols that allows applications to exchange data, perform actions, and interact in a well-documented way. When a request is made—for a weather update, say—the API processes the request, executes the necessary actions, an...