Tag: api
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Android 17 Blocks Non-Accessibility Apps from Accessibility API to Prevent Malware Abuse
Google is testing a new security feature as part of Android Advanced Protection Mode (AAPM) that prevents certain kinds of apps from using the accessibility services API.The change, incorporated in Android 17 Beta 2, was first reported by Android Authority last week.AAPM was introduced by Google in Android 16, released last year. When enabled, it…
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Best 5 AI Pentesting Tools in 2026
Cyber threats are evolving at a pace that traditional security testing methods struggle to keep up with. Organizations today operate in highly complex digital environments with cloud platforms, APIs, microservices, and rapidly deployed applications. In such environments, manual security testing alone is no longer enough. This is where an AI pentesting tool becomes a critical……
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An AI Agent Didn’t Hack McKinsey. Its Exposed APIs Did.
This week’s McKinsey incident should be a wake-up call for every enterprise moving fast to deploy AI. Not because AI itself is inherently insecure. But because too many organizations are still thinking about AI security at the model layer, while the real enterprise risk sits in the action layer: the APIs, MCP servers, internal services,…
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Modern Applications Outgrow Role-Based Access Control
Axiomatics CTO David Brossard on Why Policy-Based Access Control Fits Modern Apps. Static, role-based access control no longer matches the complexity of modern applications, APIs and data flows. Attribute- and policy-based, runtime authorization gives security teams more precision, visibility and consistency across systems, says David Brossard, CTO at Axiomatics. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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Loveholidays Protects its APIs Improves Conversions with Real-Time Bot Defense
Scraper bots were exhausting Loveholidays’ APIs and blocking real bookings. Discover how DataDome’s AI-powered bot protection restored stable traffic and conversions. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/loveholidays-protects-its-apis-improves-conversions-with-real-time-bot-defense/
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AWS expands Security Hub for multicloud security operations
Tags: access, api, ceo, ciso, cloud, cybersecurity, data, detection, endpoint, framework, google, identity, incident response, india, infrastructure, Internet, microsoft, monitoring, risk, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementCross-cloud security monitoring: While AWS has not provided technical details on how it will identify vulnerabilities outside its native environment, Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst at Greyhound Research, said multicloud visibility typically works by collecting signals from multiple security systems and translating them into a consistent format so they can be analysed together.A key enabler…
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AgentAgent Attacks Are Coming: What API Security Teaches Us About Securing AI Systems
AI systems are no longer just isolated models responding to human prompts. In modern production environments, they are increasingly chained together delegating tasks, calling tools, and coordinating decisions with limited or no human oversight. Almost all that communication happens through APIs. This shift offers enormous productivity benefits. But it has also complicated security. Because […]…
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AgentAgent Attacks Are Coming: What API Security Teaches Us About Securing AI Systems
AI systems are no longer just isolated models responding to human prompts. In modern production environments, they are increasingly chained together delegating tasks, calling tools, and coordinating decisions with limited or no human oversight. Almost all that communication happens through APIs. This shift offers enormous productivity benefits. But it has also complicated security. Because […]…
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Overly permissive ‘guest’ settings put Salesforce customers at risk
Why Salesforce environments make tempting targets: Salesforce deployments are particularly attractive because of the sensitive data they hold and the complexity of their access models.”Salesforce instances often contain highly sensitive customer data, including credentials and secrets that can be used for lateral movement,” said Vincenzo Lozzo, CEO and cofounder of SlashID. At the same time,…
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A 5-step approach to taming shadow AI
Tags: ai, api, business, communications, compliance, control, data, defense, finance, framework, governance, incident response, monitoring, network, nist, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, service, strategy, technology, toolthought work happened and how it actually does today.Here’s a five-step approach to put a robust AI-risk management framework in place: Employees often use public model APIs, browser-based prompt tools and unsanctioned or ungoverned internal chatbots to boost productivity without considering the risk of exposing sensitive data.AI usage is not difficult to identify; you just need…
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The Economic Argument: The Real Cost of Insecure APIs in the AI Era
Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, attack, business, compliance, control, corporate, cybersecurity, data, defense, exploit, finance, flaw, framework, governance, identity, injection, international, jobs, malicious, privacy, regulation, risk, threat, tool, vulnerabilityWhen cybersecurity teams talk about risk, they usually speak in technical terms like vulnerabilities, exploits, and attack vectors. But when they walk into the boardroom, they need to speak a different language. They need to speak about cost. In the era of AI, the cost of insecure APIs has shifted from a potential liability to…
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Microsoft to enable Windows hotpatch security updates by default
Microsoft will turn on hotpatch security updates by default for all eligible Windows devices managed through Microsoft Intune and the Microsoft Graph API, beginning with the May 2026 Windows security update. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-to-enable-hotpatch-security-updates-by-default-in-may/
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Why access decisions are becoming the weakest link in identity security
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, automation, breach, business, ciso, control, credentials, data, finance, governance, group, iam, identity, least-privilege, login, okta, radius, risk, saas, service, technology, toolThe SSO fallacy: Why authentication is not a guarantee: I’m often asked by business and technology leaders, “If we have SSO enabled, why do we still need to worry about granular access controls?” The underlying assumption is that once a user is authenticated through a central, secure portal, the hard work is done.In practice, SSO…
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Report Surfaces Higher Correlation Between API and AI Security
An analysis of 67,058 published vulnerabilities from 2025 finds 11,053, or 17%, are related to application programming interfaces (APIs). Conducted by Wallarm, the 2026 API ThreatStats Report also notes that 43% of the additions made in 2025 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog maintained by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) involved API……
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AI Is Moving Faster Than Security Controls
Tags: access, ai, api, automation, computing, control, cybersecurity, data, governance, group, intelligence, monitoring, risk, service, software, technology, tool, updateAI is entering organisations faster than the security controls designed to govern it. Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming embedded across organisations. AI assistants are now writing code, summarising documents, analysing data, and supporting operational decisions. What began as experimentation is quickly becoming operational dependency. For security teams, the challenge is not simply adopting AI. The…
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The Top 5 Questions: How DSPM Illuminates the Murky World of Multi-Cloud Data Security
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, cloud, compliance, computing, container, control, corporate, cryptography, cyber, data, data-breach, detection, encryption, exploit, firewall, intelligence, mitigation, monitoring, PCI, resilience, risk, risk-assessment, service, software, strategy, tactics, threat, tool, vulnerabilityThe Top 5 Questions: How DSPM Illuminates the Murky World of Multi-Cloud Data Security andrew.gertz@t“¦ Thu, 03/05/2026 – 16:09 Multi-cloud data security threats are escalating at an unprecedented rate. According to Forrester and the 2025 Thales Global Cloud Data Security Study, the primary drivers of multi-cloud risks are: growing complexity, insufficient access controls, and the…
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14 old software bugs that took way too long to squash
Tags: access, api, attack, authentication, automation, bug-bounty, communications, computer, control, credentials, cve, cvss, cyber, data, data-breach, dns, dos, encryption, exploit, flaw, hacker, Hardware, infosec, infrastructure, Internet, kaspersky, linux, malicious, malware, microsoft, mitigation, network, nist, open-source, password, programming, remote-code-execution, risk, service, software, stuxnet, supply-chain, technology, theft, threat, tool, update, usa, vulnerability, windows, zero-dayAge: 30 yearsDate introduced: 1995Date fixed: February 2026Researchers unearthed a legacy flaw in the widely used libpng open-source library that had existed since the technology was first released more than 30 years ago.The heap buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2026-25646) meant that applications using the flawed software would crash when presented with a maliciously constructed PNG raster…
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14 old software bugs that took way too long to squash
Tags: access, api, attack, authentication, automation, bug-bounty, communications, computer, control, credentials, cve, cvss, cyber, data, data-breach, dns, dos, encryption, exploit, flaw, hacker, Hardware, infosec, infrastructure, Internet, kaspersky, linux, malicious, malware, microsoft, mitigation, network, nist, open-source, password, programming, remote-code-execution, risk, service, software, stuxnet, supply-chain, technology, theft, threat, tool, update, usa, vulnerability, windows, zero-dayAge: 30 yearsDate introduced: 1995Date fixed: February 2026Researchers unearthed a legacy flaw in the widely used libpng open-source library that had existed since the technology was first released more than 30 years ago.The heap buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2026-25646) meant that applications using the flawed software would crash when presented with a maliciously constructed PNG raster…
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The Instagram API Scraping Crisis: When ‘Public’ Data Becomes a 17.5 Million User Breach
17.5 million Instagram accounts leaked through API scraping. Meta denies breach, but your data is on the dark web. Here’s what actually happened. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/the-instagram-api-scraping-crisis-when-public-data-becomes-a-17-5-million-user-breach/
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Google Gemini: Geleakter API-Key treibt Entwickler in den Ruin
Ein kleines Entwicklerteam soll plötzlich mehr als 82.000 US-Dollar an Google zahlen. Ein Angreifer hatte einen API-Key für Gemini missbraucht. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/google-gemini-geleakter-api-key-treibt-entwickler-in-den-ruin-2603-206084.html
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Shadow AI vs Managed AI: What’s the Difference? FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, chatgpt, ciso, cloud, computer, control, credentials, credit-card, data, data-breach, framework, google, injection, intelligence, Internet, law, LLM, malicious, mitre, monitoring, network, password, phishing, phone, risk, software, switch, threat, tool, training, vulnerabilityMar 04, 2026 – – Quick Facts: Shadow AI vs. Managed AIShadow AI is a visibility gap: It refers to any AI tool used by employees that the IT department doesn’t know about. Most companies have 10x more AI tools in use than they realize.Managed AI is a “Paved Path”: It uses approved, secure versions…
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AI-powered attack kits go open source, and CyberStrikeAI may be just the beginning
100-plus prebuilt tool recipes and a human-readable YAML-based extension system;Attack-chain graph, risk scoring, and “step-by-step replay”;Password-protected web user interfaces (UIs) and audit logs;A knowledge base with vector search, hybrid retrieval, and searchable archives;Vulnerability management with create, read, update, delete (CRUD) operations, severity tracking, status workflow, and statistics;Batch task management that can organize task queues and…
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Dev stunned by $82K Gemini bill after unknown API key thief goes to town
Probably not an isolated incident only as researchers have already found 2,863 live API keys exposed First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/03/03/gemini_api_key_82314_dollar_charge/
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AI Emerges as the New Insider Threat: Thales Releases the 2026 Data Threat Report
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, business, cloud, compliance, container, control, credentials, cyber, data, deep-fake, encryption, governance, identity, infrastructure, risk, saas, skills, software, strategy, theft, threat, toolAI Emerges as the New Insider Threat: Thales Releases the 2026 Data Threat Report madhav Tue, 03/03/2026 – 15:00 Over the past year, I’ve watched AI move to operational reality across nearly every industry we work with. The conversation is no longer about whether AI will transform business. It already has. Cybersecurity Todd Moore –…
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AI Agents: The Next Wave Identity Dark Matter – Powerful, Invisible, and Unmanaged
The Rise of MCPs in the EnterpriseThe Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming a practical way to push LLMs from “chat” into real work. By providing structured access to applications, APIs, and data, MCP enables prompt-driven AI agents that can retrieve information, take action, and automate end-to-end business workflows across the enterprise. This is…