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Top 11 API Security Best Practices to Prevent Security Threats

Building a new API for your web app is an exciting undertaking. It’s beneficial for everyone involved: the developers who want to build integrations for your app, the users who will reap the rewards of those connections, and your bottom line as more people are drawn to your network. New APIs may be beneficial for developers, but hackers also see this as an opportunity to gain unauthorized access to data stored on your servers.

What Are the Penalties for HIPAA Violations?

The HIPAA 1996 (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is a federal law enacted by the U.S. Congress that regulates how healthcare organizations handle PHI (protected health information) and ePHI (electronic protected health information). This includes complex and extensive rules for protecting critical medical data and sensitive patient information, so HIPAA non-compliance is often met with severe penalties.

Passkeys for Infrastructure

I predict that 2023 will be the year of Passkeys. Passkeys are a new passwordless authentication method allowing users to create online accounts and sign in without entering a password. Passkeys have been years in the making and finally, industry fido alliance collaboration (fido2) and the adoption between Apple, Microsoft, and Google have now made it a reality. Passkeys leverage the WebAuthn API to let users log into various websites and applications.

Why the quickest response is not always the best in cybersecurity

The need for fast incident response is a given. No industry professional would deny how critical a rapid response is when dealing with a cyber threat and an incident. However, it is equally important to understand that the quickest response is not always the best in cybersecurity. Security operations centers (SOCs) and organizations must factor in other variables, too, when preparing for the inevitable, as recent cyber stats suggest.

GCP FileStore Backup for Kubernetes Persistent Volume Data on GKE Clusters

Google Cloud Provider (GCP) Filestore is a good place to keep lots of rich, unstructured data, such as graphic designs, video editing files, and other media workflows that use files as input and output. Having GCP Filestore backups enables users to protect themselves against the rare case of inaccessibility, accidental changes, ransomware attacks, or other types of disasters.

The Heightened Importance of Cybersecurity in Mobile App Development

Mobile device use is pervasive, and has eclipsed traditional computing. We often hear how various malicious mobile apps are released into circulation. For these reasons, mobile app development needs to focus on cybersecurity just as much as it does on functionality and flexibility, if not more so. It’s an inevitable aspect of app development that must be taken more seriously, as the very real threats to business proliferate.

AI-generated phishing attacks are becoming more convincing

It's time for you and your colleagues to become more skeptical about what you read. That's a takeaway from a series of experiments undertaken using GPT-3 AI text-generating interfaces to create malicious messages designed to spear-phish, scam, harrass, and spread fake news. Experts at WithSecure have described their investigations into just how easy it is to automate the creation of credible yet malicious content at incredible speed.

The Latest Cybersecurity Trends for 2023

Cyberattacks have never been more common than they are now. This is particularly true as the world starts to recover from the pandemic and moves toward a more cloud-based approach. Did you know that 54% of businesses were victims of cyberattacks in the past year? And 75% reported increased security incidents, most frequently caused by identity thefts, ransomware,

College's data leak posing a significant security risk in southern Indian region

A thriving hacker has been found to be posting a college database showcasing it to be a breach. This happened to one of the colleges in the southern region of India, Kerala. Necessary measures have been taken to keep them up to date! The college’s information was found to be floating around on the Dark Web. These data seem to be highly sensitive. These data could be acquired by any human being for just a few thousand.