You have a lot of options to choose from when laying out an authorization structure for mobile applications that communicate with a web API. For basic scenarios with low to medium security ...

How to implement basic password authentication for a minimal API in ASP.NET Core using a custom authentication handler that validates the user’s credentials against a database.

LONDON, July 22, 2025--Intruder, a leader in attack surface management, has launched Autoswagger—a free, open-source tool that scans OpenAPI-documented APIs for broken authorization ...

Autoswagger automatically detects authorization weaknesses in APIs and discovers sensitive endpoints not requiring authentication where the application fails to check for a valid API token.

Using custom authorization filters in ASP.Net Web API An authorization filter is a class that extends the AuthorizationFilterAttribute class and overrides the OnAuthorization() method.

The tool then undertakes targeted scans to detect broken authorization vulnerabilities before then sending requests to each endpoint using valid parameters derived from the documentation and flags ...

Microsoft’s cloud services have come under scrutiny in recent months, with APIs at the heart of the matter. Here are some strategies to help mitigate security issues that can arise when using APIs.

'Broken object level authorization' is the number one API vulnerability that attackers can exploit to gain access to an organization's data, according to a report from the independent Open Web ...