4 articles tagged with "api"
You built an API, added authentication, and felt secure. Then a hacker changed one number in the URL and read every user's private data. IDOR is embarrassingly simple, devastatingly common, and entirely preventable — here's how.
Your API is a popular club. Rate limiting is the bouncer who keeps the chaos outside. Learn how to protect your Express server from abuse, scrapers, and the dreaded thundering herd — without turning away legit users.
You built a file download endpoint, added authentication, and shipped it. Congrats — you still got hacked. IDOR (Insecure Direct Object Reference) is the embarrassingly simple bug that's #1 in bug bounty reports and #1 in developer blind spots.
Your Express API is wide open and someone's already firing 10,000 requests a minute at it. Here's how to add rate limiting before your server turns into a crater.