Back in 2022, Microsoft announced the retirement of Basic Authentication as it was moving to modern OAuth 2.0 token-based authentication. The reason was simple, to move away from such simple ...
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ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. However, “minimal” doesn’t mean minimal security. Minimal APIs ...
In 2017, we saw a new influx of spectacular and devastating breaches. Somewhat lost in the chaos was a surprising trend amongst them -- a sharp escalation in attackers utilizing stolen, valid ...
Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative is kicking in for Outlook.com, with higher levels of security that may impact third-party apps. Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative is kicking in for Outlook.com, ...
When building your .NET applications, you will often need to generate API documentation. To do this, you might use Swagger, a toolkit that makes it simple to provide a graphical representation of your ...