GraphQL is an API standard said to be a more efficient and flexible alternative to REST and SOAP. One of the main purposes of a GraphQL server is to process incoming data. One of the most challenging tasks for developers
AI is now being pushed, if not forced, into software development by “helping” developers writing code. With this push, it’s expected that developers’ productivity increases, as well as the speed of delivery. But are we doing it right? Did we
CocoaPods is THE dependency manager for iOS and Mac projects. It helps software developers easily add pre-made pieces of code (called “libraries” or “dependencies”) to their iOS or Mac projects. These code libraries can help developers add extra features or
Unveiling the Latest NPM Ecosystem Threat: Thousands of SPAM Packages Flood the Network, A New Discovery by Checkmarx What Happened? NPM Anomalies Our technology collects and indexes evidence related to packages from all open-source ecosystems, allowing us to query historical
Nowadays, there are open-source solutions for every type of need. From accounting to CMS (Content Management System) applications, we can search for an application on the Internet that offers a solution to a specific issue or answers a need. Although,
There are a plethora of free and Open Source AppSec testing tools available on the internet and many of them are quite good – some top-of-mind shining examples (picked at random, of course) are KICS, DustiLock, and ChainAlert. With so
Just like Hollywood has its own celebrities and well-known actors, the world of malicious open-source packages also has its own notorious players. And just like Hollywood stars, these threat actors don’t always stay in the spotlight. They can take breaks
GraphQL was created and developed with flexibility in mind: clients should be given the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more. Much of this flexibility involves allowing customers to execute multiple queries in a single request,
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks in GraphQL APIs are nothing new. It turns out that when you let clients control what data they want to receive from the server, malicious users try to abuse this flexibility to exhaust resources. Who
In recent years, GraphQL adoption has increased significantly. Developed by Facebook and introduced back in 2012, GraphQL came with a different proposal other than REST: native flexibility to those building and calling the API. Some GraphQL servers took flexibility a
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