API Security

Twilio's data breach exposed 33 million Authy user phone numbers because of an unauthenticated endpoint.

Dynamic White Box Testing is a strategy in which the tester is aware of the internal structure of the application under test.

Black Box Testing is a methodology where the internal workings of the system under test are unknown to the tester.

ZAP DAST secures your web applications during runtime from security vulnerabilities by mimicking the actions of a malicious attacker.

GitHub DAST protects your web applications from security vulnerabilities by simulating attacks on web applications while it is running.

Burp Suite DAST protects your web applications from security vulnerabilities by simulating the actions of a malicious attacker.

Tenable DAST is a tool designed to protect modern applications including those reliant on javascript and AJAX frameworks from online threats.

Rapid7 DAST is a tool that analyzes web applications to identify potential security vulnerabilities.

Qualys DAST is a tool that checks running applications from outside to inspect security flaws.

Snyk DAST examines your applications in real-time from outside to find possible security issues.

DAST Gartner protects your applications from security vulnerabilities by simulating attacks in real time.

OWASP DAST is a tool designed to uncover security flaws in your live application by simulating external attacks.

Synopsys DAST or WhiteHat DAST secures your running web applications from potential vulnerabilities by simulating real-world attacks.

Invicti DAST is a tool designed to identify security vulnerabilities in websites and web applications by simulating real-world attacks.

Fortify DAST secures your deployed web applications and services from potential vulnerabilities by simulating attacks.

Veracode DAST simulates external attacks to check your web applications and APIs for security vulnerabilities.

Checkmarx DAST examines your live web applications and APIs for security issues by mimicking real-world attacks.

GitLab DAST is a tool that simulates attacks on your web applications to protect them from potential security issues.

Prompt injection in Large Language Models (LLMs) is a security attack technique where malicious instructions are inserted into a prompt, leading the LLM to unintentionally perform actions that may include revealing sensitive information, executing unauthorized actions, or manipulating its output.

LLM security involves protecting AI systems like ChatGPT, Bard from potential risks such as biased outputs, malicious use and maintaining privacy in their applications.

This blog is about "Insecure Output Handling" that pertains to the potential risk that may arise when the content generated by an LLM is not adequately sanitized or filtered prior to being presented to the end user.

On 18th Jan, 2024, Akto hosted a Webinar on API Security in DevSecOps with Joe Gerber, VP Appsec at Wells-Fargo.

A comprehensive guide to SQL Injection vulnerabilities, techniques, and examples. Learn how to exploit different databases and bypass WAF.

A comprehensive guide on the top 10 API security best practices, covering authentication, encryption, testing, and vulnerability prevention.

The OWASP Top 10 for API 2023 is the latest list released by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). In this blog you will learn what are these top 10 API vulnerabilities and how to protect your APIs against them.

XML Injection is a type of attack that targets web applications that generate XML content. Attackers use malicious code to exploit vulnerabilities in XML parsers to manipulate the content of an XML document.

IDOR is a type of security vulnerability that is caused by an application's failure to properly validate and authorize user input leading to unauthorized action.

CORS is commonly used to enable web pages to interact with APIs hosted on a different domain than the web page itself.

SQL Injection (SQLi) is a type of attack where an attacker injects malicious SQL code into a vulnerable application's database query.

In 2016, a security researcher discovered a vulnerability that allowed attackers to bypass Uber's two-factor authentication system and take over accounts by exploiting BOLA via parameter pollution.

The Equifax data breach in 2017, which exposed the personal information of 143 million individuals, was a result of a vulnerability in the Apache Struts API framework and a broken functionality level authorization (BFLA) in Equifax's web application.

This blog is about learning mass assignment vulnerability, how to find it manually, how to test for it using Akto and finally how to prevent it.

In this blog, we will compare the changes of OWASP API Security Top 10 2019 and OWASP API Security Top 10 2023 release candidate.

Broken Object level Authorization is the most critical vulnerability in OWASP Top 10 of APIs.

Broken User Authentication is one of the most critical vulnerability in OWASP Top 10 of APIs.

In this blog, you will learn How to test JWT NONE Algorithm vulnerability using Akto.

In this blog you will learn how to test for Broken Object Level Authorization with weak enumerable user IDs.

This blog is about how to test for BOLA using unauthorized UUID on an API endpoint.