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Best Practices for Securing Your Vulnerable REST APIs
April 28, 2022, 6:58 p.m. | Intesar Shannan Mohammed
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Why API security is a common problem. Most web and mobile apps are security tested at some point but APIs hardly get any attention. This means you may have vulnerabilities in your production APIs.
For example, let’s say you have a fintech application. It does things like accounts, transfers, etc. It has mobile/web UIs for performing these operations. You might have tested all the UI paths are only accessible to an authenticated user. Sometimes API endpoint like the one below …
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