Friday, January 16, 2015

Continued Instagram Private Photo Hack Exemplifies API Security Challenges

Perhaps proving just how difficult API security can be, even for the biggest of API providers whose bench is deep enough to leave no stone unturned, it appears as though Instagram's API is still responding to certain queries with images that are supposed to be private and therefore excluded from the results. News of the vulnerability comes after the social photosharing subsidiary of Facebook announced that it fixed the problem.







from ProgrammableWeb http://www.programmableweb.com/news/continued-instagram-private-photo-hack-exemplifies-api-security-challenges/analysis/2015/01/16

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