Top 10 Practices for Securing Cloud Workloads

Public cloud is one of the biggest challenges in every IT organization. While driving greater scalability, performance, and access for a competitive edge, it also introduces new security risks. More than just hosted data center infrastructure, public cloud offers the promise of agility, efficienc...

DDoS attacks in Q2 2019

News overview The second quarter of 2019 turned out to be richer than the first in terms of high-profile DDoS attacks. True, most of the campaigns that attracted media attention appeared to be politically, rather than commercially, motivated — and that despite the fact that some security experts...

Launching the Melbourne Scrubbing Centre

We are excited to announce the launch of Akamai's newest scrubbing centre in Australia. While Akamai has been protecting ANZ customers from large and complex DDoS attacks for years, the new Melbourne scrubbing centre will allow us to provide higher resilience and reduce latency for in-region...

4 Critical Elements Your Next Security Solution Must Have

Security is essential to the success of any digital business. But there's one thing you can always count on: security-related incursions are inevitable. And the results can be devastating. Security breaches erode trust and damage reputation. As a CIO, CISO, or other security or IT leader, you kno...

Enabling Faster DDoS Mitigation for Cloud Assets

The cloud journey was considered a visionary approach less than a decade ago. Today, more than half of organizations rely on a cloud provider, and are planning to expand their portfolios across multiple cloud platforms, as part of their ongoing digital transformation. Is the so-called cloud promi...

This Week in Security News: Unpatched Systems and Lateral Phishing

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about an attack against Elasticsearch that delivers backdoors as its payload. Additionally, read how cybercriminals are turning to...

New malware attack turns Elasticsearch databases into DDoS botnet

By Uzair Amir The malware attack involves two stages including one in which existing cryptomining malware is removed and other remove configuration files. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New malware attack turns Elasticsearch databases into DDoS botnet...

Imperva Blocks Our Largest DDoS L7/Brute Force Attack Ever (Peaking at 292,000 RPS)

Imagine you’re a developer building a new web application. You’ve followed all of the security best practices, hired a reputable penetration testing company before launch, and gone through extensive bug fixing to remove any vulnerabilities. However, would you be confident that your application...

New 3-Second DDoS Mitigation SLA is 3x Faster and the Industry’s Best

Back in 2018, we made waves with a groundbreaking DDoS Mitigation SLA service level agreement for our DDoS Protection service that guaranteed to mitigate DDoS attacks in under 10 seconds. Now, we’ve upped the ante to ensure DDoS attack mitigation with a new, industry-best three seconds-or-less...

Mirai Botnet Sees Big 2019 Growth, Shifts Focus to Enterprises

The infamous Mirai internet of things botnet is spiking in growth while changing up its tactics, techniques and procedures so far in 2019, to target more and more enterprise-level hardware, It’s a state of affairs that presents a greater concern than ever before given the ongong migration to the...

Compromising vital infrastructure: problems in education security continue

The educational system and many of its elements are targets for cybercriminals on a regular basis. While education is a fundamental human right recognized by the United Nations, the financial means of many schools and other entities in the global educational system are often limited. These limite...

CVE-2018-10531

An issue was discovered in the America's Army Proving Grounds platform for the Unreal Engine. With a false packet sent via UDP, the application server responds with several bytes, giving the possibility of DoS amplification, even being able to be used in DDoS attacks...

Code injection

An issue was discovered in the America's Army Proving Grounds platform for the Unreal Engine. With a false packet sent via UDP, the application server responds with several bytes, giving the possibility of DoS amplification, even being able to be used in DDoS attacks...

CVE-2018-10531

An issue was discovered in the America's Army Proving Grounds platform for the Unreal Engine. With a false packet sent via UDP, the application server responds with several bytes, giving the possibility of DoS amplification, even being able to be used in DDoS attacks...

Cisco NX-OS Software 802.1X Extensible Authentication Protocol over LAN Denial of Service Vulnerability

According to its self-reported version, a distributed denial of service DDoS vulnerability exists in the 802.1X implementation for Cisco NX-OS Software due to incomplete input validation of EAPOL frames. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this by sending a crafted EAPOL frame to an...

GoBotKR Targets Pirate Torrents to Build a DDoS Botnet

A botnet dubbed GoBotKR is targeting fans of Korean TV, compromising computers via pirated copies of South Korean movies, games and TV shows available via Korean and Chinese torrent sites. Ultimately, the cybercriminals are building a network that can then be used to perform DDoS attacks of vario...

Man who carried out DDoS attacks against PSN & Xbox jailed

By Waqas The cybercriminal was also involved in several other cybercrimes including swatting and deleting databases of targeted websites. Austin Thompson, a DDoS attacker going by the online handle of Derp Trolling has been sentenced to 2.25 years 27 months in prison for conducting DDoS attacks o...

DDoS Attacker Who Ruined Gamers' Christmas Gets 27 Months in Prison

A 23-year-old hacker from Utah who launched a series of DDoS attacks against multiple online services, websites, and online gaming companies between December 2013 and January 2014 has been sentenced to 27 months in prison. Austin Thompson, a.k.a. "DerpTroll," pledged guilty back in November 2018...

5 Years of Fighting DDoS with the Power of Akamai

Additional analysis and research provided by Principal Architect, Tom Emmons Earlier this year, Akamai celebrated the fifth anniversary of the Prolexic acquisition. The merger was officially completed in February of 2014, and a lot has happened since then. In this post, we want to spend a moment...

Finding Beauty in the IT Architecture

I have a confession to make. I’m a sucker for good architecture. Visiting places like Singapore, London, Rome, Buenos Aires, and New York City, I quickly find myself gravitating towards beautiful archways, spires, and even the voids used in designing some of the world’s most amazing buildings. I...