Topic: api security
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API Incidents Surge: 40,000+ Reported in First Half of 2025
The first half of 2025 saw over 40,000 API incidents, with APIs becoming a prime target for sophisticated automated attacks despite representing a small part of the attack surface. A record-breaking 15 million requests-per-second DDoS attack targeted a financial services API, using botnets that m...
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Cequence Security Supercharges Channel Program for API & AI Security Growth
Cequence Security has transitioned to a channel-only business model, expanding its Partner Program with structured tiers, enhanced resources, and incentives to accelerate growth in API and AI security. The program addresses key customer challenges by simplifying API security through the Unified A...
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ImmuniWeb Continuous: AI-Powered, Always-On Security Testing
ImmuniWeb Continuous offers 24/7 penetration testing and vulnerability scanning for web applications, APIs, and microservices, ideal for businesses with multiple applications across varied infrastructures. The platform combines AI-driven automated scanning with optional manual testing by experts,...
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Asia-Pacific Emerges as World's Most AI-Ready Software Market
The Asia-Pacific region is emerging as a global leader in AI-ready software development, with its developers showing greater maturity in building the API infrastructure needed to operationalize AI safely and at scale. APAC developers prioritize API security and performance, being significantly mo...
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AI Adoption Fuels Surge in Critical Security Flaws
A significant surge in hardware, API, and network vulnerabilities is creating unprecedented risks, driven by IoT proliferation and resulting in an 88% increase in hardware flaws and a doubling of network vulnerabilities. The rapid integration of AI into software development is expanding the attac...
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Fastly Named Gartner Customers' Choice for 7th Year in Web Security
Fastly has been named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Cloud WAAP for the seventh consecutive year, based on high customer satisfaction and feedback from IT professionals. The company's Web Application Firewall received an outstanding 4.8 out of 5 stars from 130 verified reviews, emp...
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Securing AI Agents in SaaS with Obsidian
Obsidian Security has launched a new defense system specifically designed to secure AI agents in SaaS environments, addressing the security gaps and cascading threats created by their rapid integration and excessive permissions. The proliferation of AI agents, such as those from Microsoft Copilot...
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SonicWall Urges Password Reset Following Security Breach
SonicWall has advised customers to reset passwords after detecting unauthorized access to firewall configuration backup files in some MySonicWall accounts, which contain sensitive data like credentials and tokens. The company confirmed this was not a ransomware attack but a series of targeted bru...
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F5 Issues Critical Patches for Stolen BIG-IP Vulnerabilities
F5 Networks issued critical security patches for its BIG-IP product line after a state-sponsored breach on August 9, 2025, which exposed proprietary source code and vulnerabilities, urging immediate installation to address 44 issues. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) man...
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SonicWall Firewall Backups Compromised by Attackers
SonicWall confirmed that attackers used brute-force methods to access its cloud backup API, compromising configuration backup files for all customers who used the service, contradicting earlier statements about a limited impact. The compromised files contain sensitive data like network settings, ...
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Secure AI Operations with Akeyless AI Agent Identity
Businesses face urgent security challenges from autonomous AI agents, with Akeyless launching a comprehensive AI Agent Identity Security solution to address vulnerabilities from AI-driven identities. AI agents possess inherent design flaws, such as maintaining awareness of their credentials, whic...
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Crafting an Effective Healthcare Cybersecurity Strategy
Focus on foundational cybersecurity controls like vulnerability management and network segmentation to maximize protection with limited resources, as they offer high-impact risk reduction. Cultivate a strong cybersecurity culture through staff training, making the workforce a cost-effective first...
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