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Approov is an API security solution used to verify that requests received by your API services originate from trusted versions of your apps. It provides a very strong indication that a request can be trusted. The core Approov product is targeted at mobile apps, however, we provide several integrations with 3rd party web protection solutions so that a single backend Approov check can be used to authorize API access whether it originates from your mobile or web app. Read Full Story

Approov API security solution is used to verify that requests received by your API services originate from trusted versions of your apps. It provides a very strong indication that a request can be trusted. The core Approov product is targeted at mobile apps, however, we provide several integrations with 3rd party web protection solutions so that a single backend Approov check can be used to authorize API access whether it originates from your mobile or web app. Read Full Story

Approov is an API security solution used to verify that requests received by your API services originate from trusted versions of your apps. It provides a very strong indication that a request can be trusted. The core Approov product is targeted at mobile apps, however, we provide several integrations with 3rd party web protection solutions so that a single backend Approov check can be used to authorize API access whether it originates from your mobile or web app. Read Full Story

Editor's note: This post was originally published in June 2021 in Security Today. The Covid-19 epidemic has forced the car rental industry into rethinking its value proposition. While it once positioned itself as an ancillary service to the airline industry, generating the bulk of its income through airport locations, a collapse in global airline passenger numbers over the past year may have sped up a process already underway: Far from occupying a segment in the travel industry, car rental companies are now one corner of the Cars as a Service industry. Read Full Story

We are delighted to be hosting some unique content from our friend and recovering hacker Alissa Knight. This is the third blog in a series about the security risks exposed by the push to adopt FHIR APIs in US healthcare. Read Full Story

We are delighted to be hosting some unique content from our friend and recovering hacker Alissa Knight who will be writing on the topic of healthcare API security. In the first article, Alissa provided a plain English explanation of FHIR from the perspective of a hacker. In this blog, Alissa covers mobile API authentication and authorization. Read Full Story

The Azure API Management Platform aims to be the front door to APIs hosted in Azure, on premises, or even in other clouds. The managed platform allows developers to secure, monitor, transform and maintain APIs published through it, using the Azure portal or the Azure CLI. Read Full Story

Photo credit: iStock.com/Evkaz We are all very aware of the issues around phishing of user credentials. But it is not only users that can be phished, apps can be too. In previous blogs we’ve shown you how you can make a MITM attack against an app. In this blog we’ll demonstrate that a MITM attack against an app is analogous to a phishing attack against a human. Moreover, there are some similar characteristics to the protections required. Read Full Story

In a previous article we learned how to perform a MitM attack on a mobile app that doesn’t employ certificate pinning as a mechanism of preventing such attacks. Today I will show how to use the Frida instrumentation framework to hook into the mobile app at runtime and instrument the code in order to perform a successful MitM attack even when the mobile app has implemented certificate pinning. Read Full Story

Performing a MitM attack against an HTTPS channel requires the capability for the attacker to be able to add the proxy server Certificate Authority (CA) into the Trust Store of the device running the mobile app and a popular approach is to manually upload the CA to the device, but this comes with some challenges, that may require to root the device and/or repackage the mobile app. An easier way exists, and in this article I will show how to use an Android Emulator with a writable file system that will allow us to install the proxy certificate directly into the system trusted store, without the need to root the emulator or make changes in the mobile app. This is a hands on how to tutorial, that you can easily follow, even if you have not done a MitM attack before or you are just starting your developer Android journey. Read Full Story