Semantic Research: Understanding the Connections Between the Dots

Greg Bates, November 5th, 2012

Semantic Research SemanticaThe Semantic Research API documentation is not publicly available. The company specializes in knowledge structures which primarily have to do with law enforcement and intelligence.


The Feinsearch API: They’ve Got Your Number

Greg Bates, November 2nd, 2012

FeinsearchThe XML-based  Feinsearch API makes it possible for companies seeking to do multiple searches, sometimes in the thousands, to integrate that capability into their own programs via its proprietary EIN Batchmatch. The Feinsearch database has more than 16 million business and suppliers.


Got Reputation? Protect It with nsure.io

Greg Bates, October 18th, 2012

nsure.ionsure.io provides a series of four APIs so that site owners can control exactly what gets put on their site–and block what could harm their reputation. In this post I will explore the details of each API.


Rise of the Spambots: 3 APIs For Beating CAPTCHAs

Garrett Wilkin, October 17th, 2012

Death By CAPTCHAThe Death By CAPTCHA API is one of three CAPTCHA beating APIs posted to our index in just the last week.  After taking a look at them I can say that they are just as seedy and sketchy as you would imagine.  Even so, I don’t see these services going away anytime soon.  The existence of super cheap CAPTCHA beating systems begs the question, how effective is the visual CAPTCHA today?


Could Your API Land You in Court: What Developers Should Know

Loraine Lawson, October 5th, 2012

When a federal judge declared in June that software APIs aren’t covered by copyright law, it was a major victory not just for Google against Oracle, but for the API developers and users alike.


TypePad AntiSpam Aims To Create A Spam-Free Blogosphere

Candice McMillan, September 28th, 2012

TypePad AntiSpamThere’s nothing more frustrating for the serious blogger than having to constantly deal with an overload of destructive spam. Many are rooting for the technical teams who will win the war and see spam banished forever. TypePad AntiSpam has this very vision and the TypePad AntiSpam API to support it.


Secure Messaging Fit For The Professionals – SWAT Uses ArmorText

Candice McMillan, September 21st, 2012

ArmorText is an easy to use, secure texting application for android. Created by mobile security company Gryphn, the application is designed to replace a phone’s native texting application, giving the user the ability to securely encrypt text messages.


Blog Spam Hits The Road With Comment SPAM Wiper

Candice McMillan, August 23rd, 2012

SpamWipeNo-one likes a spammer, so ‘high fives’ for the development of more spam-obliterating solutions. Be it blogs, wikis, guestbooks or discussion boards, all have been the victims of spammers’ endeavors to increase their search engine ranking. Comments are automatically posted in their dozens on multiple sites, and the process of manually deleting each of these is becoming increasingly tiresome. Comment SPAM Wiper (CSW) and it’s SpamWipe API are designed to automatically protect a site from spam comments, posts, track-backs, ping-backs and the like. Hooray!


Guardly Helps Users Stay Safe, Via API

Candice McMillan, August 15th, 2012

GuardlyGuardly is a personal safety service. It instantly connects the user to friends, family and authorities in an emergency. With just one tap of a button on a mobile device, Guardly sends an alert to everyone in a user’s safety network. It can even dial 911 automatically in more serious emergencies, while alerting contacts and sharing the user’s real time location. And, of course, there is also a Guardly API.


Apple’s Fix for iOS In-App Purchase Hack: Provide Access to Private APIs

Janet Wagner, July 26th, 2012

Apple iOSEarlier this month, hacker Alexey V. Borodin discovered a method that allows some iOS app users to make “In-App Purchases” for FREE. Because Apple does not link purchases directly to individual customers or devices, a single receipt can be used for multiple transactions. Borodin’s method takes advantage of this fact by fooling iOS apps into accepting fake purchase receipts and bypassing Apple’s authentication servers.


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