Securing CDN Delivery with TLS at Massive Scale

The growth of HTTPS on the Internet Amidst ever-growing security concerns, providing protected Internet connections is more important than ever. The movement towards an Internet that places more emphasis on data integrity and confidentiality is taking place swiftly. HTTP connections are giving wa...

What's New in Web Performance? - March 2019

Organizations that do business on the web are at various stages in their digital transformation journey. Some are developing some of the most innovative and immersive digital experiences on the web, others are, for the first time, figuring out how to safely move applications to the cloud with...

DataStream - The Real World Benefits of Real time Logging

Beijing Summer Olympics, 2008 - I remember the butterflies in my stomach as I saw Michael Phelps touch the wall to win his 7th gold at 100m butterfly. It was a record time of 50.58 but everyone was biting their nails because the difference between winning and losing here was only a hundredth of a...

HTTP/2 Will be Automatically Enabled by Default on the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform

Users demand digital experiences that are fast, secure and visually engaging. To deliver on user expectations, companies craft web experiences that are richer and more interactive with the goal of driving more engagement. The result is increasingly complex websites that are comprised of high...

Own Your Digital Future: Cloud Migration Best Practices

Many organizations are well underway on their journey to using cloud platforms to become more agile, reduce costs, and drive efficiencies. Nobody wants to reinvent the wheel though so to speak, and reusing established design patterns can be the difference between a delayed rollout and a fast and...

Enhancing API Gateway With Request Throttling to Manage Overconsumption

API traffic is exploding online and across the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform. APIs are the connective tissue among organizations driving innovative and integrated digital experiences. As these experiences are mission critical for organizations to monetize partnerships, create connections for...

Pixel Update Bulletin—March 2019Stay organized with collectionsSave and categorize content based on your preferences.

The Pixel Update Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities and functional improvements affecting supported Google Pixel devices Google devices. For Google devices, security patch levels of 2019-03-05 or later address all issues in this bulletin and all issues in the March 2019 Android...

Storage Performance Development Kit Denial of Service Vulnerability

Storage Performance Development Kit SPDK is a storage performance development kit from the SPDK community. The product is intended for writing high-performance, scalable user-mode storage applications. A denial of service vulnerability exists in versions prior to SPDK 19.01, which stems from a...

CVE-2019-9547

CVE-2019-9547 affects Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) prior to 19.01. A malicious vhost client (e.g., a VM) could craft a circular descriptor chain that the vhost target fails to detect, leading to a partial denial of service in the SPDK vhost target. The underlying issue is insufficie...

Spectre, Google, and the Universal Read Gadget

Spectre, a seemingly never ending menace to processors, is back in the limelight once again thanks to the Universal Read Gadget. First seen at the start of 2018, Spectre emerged alongside Meltdown as a major potential threat to people’s system security. Meltdown and Spectre Meltdown targeted Inte...

PT-2019-19698

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Storage Performance Development Kit SPDK versions prior to 19.01 Description A malicious vhost client could construct a circular descriptor chain, resulting in a partial denial of service in the SPDK vhost target. This occurs because the vhost...

CVE-2019-9547: Excessive Iteration

In Storage Performance Development Kit SPDK before 19.01, a malicious vhost client i.e., virtual machine could carefully construct a circular descriptor chain that would result in a partial denial of service in the SPDK vhost target, because the vhost target did not properly detect such chains...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18494

A same-origin policy violation allowing the theft of cross-origin URL entries when using the Javascript location property to cause a redirection to another site using performance.getEntries. This is a same-origin policy violation and could allow for data theft. This vulnerability affects...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18499

A same-origin policy violation allowing the theft of cross-origin URL entries when using a meta http-equiv="refresh" on a page to cause a redirection to another site using performance.getEntries. This is a same-origin policy violation and could allow for data theft. This vulnerability affects...

Packet Pacing Benefits for Midgress Traffic

Akamai's Smooth Delivery Pacing SDP made an impression last year by increasing client network performance while simultaneously reducing retransmissions. If you missed the details and want to learn more about SDP, please check out our past discussion. In this article, we'll explore if SDP's benefi...

openSUSE Security Update : qemu (openSUSE-2019-254)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2019-6778: Fixed a heap buffer overflow issue in the SLiRP networking implementation bsc1123156. - CVE-2018-16872: Fixed a host security vulnerability related to handling symlinks in usb-mtp bsc1119493. -...

Security update for qemu (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for qemu Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:0254-1 Rating: important References: 1063993 1079730 1100408 1101982 1112646 1114957 1116717 1117275 1119493 1121600 1123156 1123179 Cross-References: CVE-2018-16872 CVE-2018-18954 CVE-2018-19364 CVE-2018-19489...

Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2019 is Certified by AV-TEST with Top Scores for Protection, Performance, and Usability

Current and potential users of the latest edition of Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac v9.0, for 2019 will be pleased to know that it achieved MacOS Certification and top scores in all three categories in the recent AV-TEST Product Review and Certification Report – Dec/2018. Trend Micro Antivirus for...

How to pin Citrix Hypervisor Virtual CPUs to specific Physical CPUs

Citrix Hypervisor maps vCPUs to pCPUs by default in a semi-even way to distribute VM load on the host. In some cases it may be needed to have a specific mapping, for example, if some VMs will be CPU intensive while other wont, the intensive VMs can be mapped to exclusive physical CPUs while the...

February 19, 2019—KB4487021 (OS Build 16299.1004)

February 19, 2019—KB4487021 OS Build 16299.1004 Applies To Windows 10, version 1709, all editions Improvements and fixes This update includes quality improvements. No new operating system features are being introduced in this update. Key changes include: Updates time zone information for Chile...