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How I built my own command-line weather app with Python

It's possible to build a simple Python CLI weather app in a weekend using geopy, requests, and the NWS JSON API. Use geopy's ...
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Popular WAFs Subverted by JSON Bypass

Web application firewalls (WAFs) from five major vendors are vulnerable to malicious requests that use the popular JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) to obfuscate database commands and escape detection ...
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JSON-based SQL injection attacks trigger need to update web application firewalls

Security researchers have developed a generic technique for SQL injection that bypasses multiple web application firewalls (WAFs). At the core of the issue was WAF vendors failing to add support for ...
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CSIO’s API Implementation Working Groups Publish a JSON API Implementation Guide and Finalize JSON API Standards for Four Additional Use Cases

The Working Groups also finalized API Standards in JSON for four more use cases: addition of coverage on risk, get claims status, amend payment details, and amend address of a financial institution.
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Is JSON and XML your REST performance bottleneck?

The widespread use of ASCII encoding formats like JSON and rest may be killing server performance. A wide variety of emerging binary formats offer significantly improved performance for processing ...