API Security Exposure for Gift Card Fraud: A 14-Year-Old’s Guide


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Adoption of APIs is increasing significantly. Mobile apps and web applications use API to transmit a lot of sensitive information. Many retailers and online platforms that provide subscription-based services use API to allow users to login or check balances on their gift cards. Sophisticated attacks can expose details of gift cards and gift card balances that could be used maliciously.

Learning Objectives:
1: Improve understanding of API and how to protect against sophisticated attacks.
2: Understand steps organisations should take to prevent revenue loss from gift card fraud.
3: Learn through a demo of how API security is broken and the steps to take to prevent it.

Pre-Requisites:
Javaskript and Fiddler.
Participants
Tanay Deshmukh

Participant

Self, High School Student


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