Investigating Recent Breaches
One of the best ways to learn is through the experience of others, particularly if these experiences come with deleterious consequences. Unfortunately, in the case of API security, there is no shortage of breaches and security incidents from which to learn.
In this chapter, we will look at a number of real-world API breaches, gaining an appreciation of how poor design decisions and implementation flaws allowed a skilled attacker to exploit the API, often with serious consequences. Explore this chapter with an open mind and consider, at each point, the decisions made and how you would have done things differently. Remember that hindsight is 20/20 – it’s not always as easy as it might seem.
In this chapter, we will examine several recent real-world breaches, focusing on the following areas:
- What happened with the incident?
- What was the root cause of the incident?
- What was the impact of the incident?
- How can such incidents...
