A developer needs to connect a service to an API. The documentation says to generate an API key, store it in an environment variable and pass it in a header. Five minutes later, the integration works.

Sergey Chubarov explained how unmanaged non-human identities such as service accounts, API keys and tokens can become a major attack vector and outlined practical steps to improve visibility, ...

Google Cloud API keys, normally used as simple billing identifiers for APIs such as Maps or YouTube, could be scraped from websites to give access to private Gemini AI project data, researchers from ...