Verizon is making a habit of embarrassing security lapses that undermine its credentials as a provider of services in the area. This is reminiscent of the recent CrowdStrike debacle affecting Windows updates, which although not directly security related, raised the question of whether the vendor could be trusted as custodian of a customer’s network. The recent Verizon case is small beer by comparison, where the operator was fined $16 million as part of a settlement with regulator Federal Communications Commission (FCC) relating to three breaches involving customer information leaked form its subsidiary TracFone. But it highlighted risks associated with network APIs, implicated in all three breaches. It is worth noting straightaway that these three breaches all involved traditional network APIs, not the…