Bedside Hotel Robot Hacked to Stream In-Room Video

A Japanese hotel chain called “Henn na” that uses robots in lieu of human staff is wrestling with bedside bots that researchers hacked to view video footage from guest rooms. The chain’s parent, HIS Group, owns 10 locations throughout Japan that leverage robots with facial recognition capability...

Enhancing Video Streaming Quality for Exoplayer -- Part 2: Buffering Strategy to Lower Startup Time and Video On-Demand Rebuffering

The first part of this blog series discussed about the quality of user experience QoE metrics and two strategies that heavily influence the QoE: the bitrate selection...

Akamai Outlook: Optimizing Edge Delivery Performance and Monitoring

Written by: Ritesh Kalyanshetty and Sandeep Singh Pervasiveness of CDNs within the expanding Media and Entertainment Industry Media and entertainment companies, including content owners and over-the-top OTT service providers are living in an era symbolized by a dramatic increase in content...

A Peak at the Edge: Akamai Sets New Traffic Benchmark

Last week Akamai reached a significant milestone when traffic on our intelligent edge platform exceeded the threshold of 100 Tbps terabits per second for the first time in our history, peaking at 106 Tbps. To put that volume of traffic into context, delivering 106 terabits per second is roughly t...

WordPress s3bubble-amazon-s3-audio-streaming plugin path traversal vulnerability

WordPress is a blogging platform developed by the WordPress Foundation using the PHP language. The platform supports personal blog sites on PHP and MySQL servers. s3bubble-amazon-s3-audio-streaming is an audio player plugin for streaming Amazon S3 used in it. A path traversal vulnerability exists...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: jackson-core-2.10.0-1.fc30

Core part of Jackson that defines Streaming API as well as basic shared abstractions...

Optimizing Video Streaming Performance with Origin-Assisted Prefetching

Online video streaming is everywhere today. It's available on the smallest hand-held devices to the largest of screens in our living rooms. Magically and for the most part, it works and provides a very captivating experience. However, if you step back to look at the overall architecture, media...

How to Scale Addressable Advertising with Low Latency for Live Streaming

Written by: David Springfall, Founder and CTO of Yospace Under David's technical and strategic leadership, Yospace pioneered server-side ad insertion and established itself as the global leader in OTT stream monetisation. The Yospace technology supports full one-to-one personalisation and provide...

Access Revocation: A Content Provider's Tool to Block Pirates in Real time

Akamai Announces New Capability to Allows Content Providers to Shut Down Sources of Piracy ... The Growth of Global Online Video Consumption and Piracy Media and entertainment companies, including Content owners and Over-the-top OTT service providers are living in an era that provides them an...

October 2019 - What's New in Media?

Today, Akamai announced the October 2019 Release, which introduces new capabilities to our Media product line with a focus on helping customers accelerate their cloud transformation using the power of the edge. Within Media, the new enhancements are highlighted by: Scalable forensic watermarking...

Quickly Extend Live Streams with VOD Clipping

Time is always of the essence to extend compelling video content such as sporting events and concerts and make the most of media rights windows. This is especially true for catch-up TV, highlight creation, time-shifting 24/7 simulcast streams, and social sharing. At Akamai, we are continually...

CVE-2015-9463

The CVE-2015-9463 entry concerns the WordPress plugin s3bubble-amazon-s3-audio-streaming (version 2.0). A directory traversal flaw exists in the plugin via the adverts/assets/plugins/ultimate/content/downloader.php path parameter, enabling access to restricted filesystem locations. Multiple conne...

CVE-2015-9463

The s3bubble-amazon-s3-audio-streaming plugin 2.0 for WordPress has directory traversal via the adverts/assets/plugins/ultimate/content/downloader.php path parameter...

PVS 1906: Unable to boot target device from BDM ISO. Getting "No Disk found to boot"

Target device was getting the IP address When target device was trying to stream it was failing with error "No Disk found to boot"...

File Upload Vulnerability in Beijing Century Sunflower Streaming Media Service System (KMS 3.0) up***.php Page

Beijing Century Sunflower Streaming Media Service System KMS 3.0 is an audio and video application platform based on IP network, integrating live broadcasting system, video-on-demand system, video broadcasting system, as well as sub-systems such as data distribution and business management. A fil...

CVE-2009-1148

Directory traversal vulnerability in bsdispasmimetype.php in the BLOB streaming feature in phpMyAdmin before 3.1.3.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in the filepath parameter $filename variable...

The vulnerability in the implementation of the HTTP Live Streaming protocol in Firefox and Firefox ESR browsers, as well as in the Thunderbird email client for Android, allows a perpetrator to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability in the implementation of the HTTP Live Streaming protocol for Firefox and Firefox ESR browsers, as well as the Thunderbird email client for Android, is related to security configuration errors. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to compromise the...

Weak Password Vulnerability in Streaming Media Management Server

Streaming media server is the core system of streaming media application, and it is the key platform for operators to provide video services to users. The main function of streaming media server is to collect, cache, schedule and transmit and play streaming media content. A weak password...

A week in security (September 16 -22)

Last week on Labs, we sounded the alarm about the relaunch of Emotet, one of the year's most dangerous forms of malware, with a new spam campaign. We also reported on how international students in UK are targeted by visa scammers, what CEOs think about a potential US data privacy law, and...

Fedora Update for jackson-databind FEDORA-2019-ae6a703b8f

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...