How to Detect and Stop URL Parameter Tampering
By Anthony Lonergan | Date posted: July 31, 2017
In this series on the Top 10 API threats and How to Prevent Them, Forum Systems shares security insights compiled over many years, delivering secure and reliable solutions for web services and API modernization initiatives.
#2 How to Detect and Stop URL Parameter Tampering
The previous article How to Prevent SSL Vulnerabilities shows how SSL/TLS protocols can be compromised to expose APIs to attacks. Next we focus on vulnerabilities in the content of an API request, specifically the URL parameters.