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November 9, 2021

API Security Issue 155

This week, we have a vulnerability in the BrewDog mobile app exposing users’ PII courtesy of hard-coded bearer tokens, Cisco has announced the arrival of their APIClarity at KubeCon 2021, F5 has published a report on API attacks in Open Banking, and finally, there’s a mega-guide on API security best practices.

Vulnerability: Hard-Coded API Bearer Token in Brewdog Mobile App

October 22, 2021

Token Based Security: Angular Applications, Part 3

Introduction

In the previous post of this series, we configured our Angular application as a client of IdnentityServer and completed the login/logout process.

However even though the user was logged in, the REST API calls were still not authorized:

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