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#1By @BlackHatDan • Oct 14, 2026 • 201 views • 3 replies

Securing public REST APIs against credential stuffing and automated token abuse

Implementing sliding-window rate limiting at the Nginx layer plus HMAC request signing stopped 99.4% of unauthorized scraper hits before they ever reached our backend.
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Oct 14, 2026, 04:20 PM
Bookmarked. The point about keeping memory footprint under 80MB per worker is spot on—most people overpay for server specs they never touch.
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Oct 14, 2026, 04:38 PM
Can confirm this works. We tested this across 3 separate domains in Q3 and the indexing/conversion difference was night and day.
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Oct 14, 2026, 04:56 PM
Great write-up. If anyone needs the systemd unit file or cron snippet for this setup, I can share our production template as well.
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