Hacking APIs For Beginners (Tips and Tricks on Hacking Any API)

APIs are everywhere, they’re in our mobile apps, our desktop apps and even our fridges, and rightly so they often provide a useful service for developers allowing code to be reused across services and devices. But like many aspects of security, this convenience has a trade off when it comes to security. This is where I come in, I am a bug bounty Hunter and some of my favourite things to hack are APIs. In this talk you’ll join me on a beginners trip around the world of API security, showing you the vulnerabilities you can expect to find and how they can be resolved. SPEAKER: Katie Paxton-Fear PUBLICATION PERMISSIONS: Original video was published with the Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed). Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcV8TLSTn78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkJKzdBPo6w