CISA Retires 10 Emergency Cybersecurity Directives Issued Between 2019 and 2024

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Thursday said it's retiring 10 emergency directives Eds that were issued between 2019 and 2024. The list of the directives now considered closed is as follows - ED 19-01: Mitigate DNS Infrastructure Tampering ED 20-02: Mitigate...

What is DNS (Domain Name System) Spoofing and Cache Poisoning❓

What Is DNS spoofing? Domain Name System DNS harming and caricaturing are sorts of cyberattack that adventure DNS worker weaknesses to redirect traffic from real workers towards counterfeit ones. Whenever you’ve ventured out to a fake page, you might be astounded on the best way to determine it —...

Enhanced Security at the Edge with Imperva DNS Protection

Your website is the gateway to your business and the potential for disruption of your site or damage to your web infrastructure makes DNS security a serious consideration for organizations. The criticality of DNS Services for ensuring network connectivity and website availability make them a hot...

Using Akamai Edge DNS with PCI DSS Environments

Overview The PCI DSS scoping guidance indicates that common shared services that provide services to the CDE, such as DNS, can be in scope and must be assessed for PCI DSS compliance. This post discusses the application of this scoping guidance to the external authoritative DNS servers and provid...

Innovation Driven by Operational Experience and Engineering Insight Deters NXNS Attacks

DNS and security have had a long and tangled relationship. The DNS has always been an attractive target since it's a network leverage point. At DNS OARC 30 in Bangkok in 2019, Akamai's Ralf Weber did a presentation called DNS Security: Past, Present, and Future It's Not Easy covering numerous DNS...

Introducing Akamai Edge DNS

At Akamai, we live by the motto "Intelligent Security Starts at the Edge," which is why we're excited to announce that we are changing the name of our authoritative DNS service from Fast DNS to Edge DNS. If you are an existing Fast DNS customer, rest assured that for now, this is purely a name...

DNS Encryption at DNS OARC 32

The DNS DNS Operations, Analysis, and Research Center DNS OARC is an organization that, in their own words, works to "improve the security, stability, and understanding of the Internet's DNS infrastructure." They hold regular workshops where deployment experts, software developers, researchers, a...

What the continued escalation of tensions in the Middle East means for security

Cisco Talos works with many organizations around the world, monitoring and protecting against sophisticated threats every day. As such, we are watching the current state of events in the Middle East very closely for our customers and partners who may be impacted by the ongoing situation. We are...

CISA Releases Four New Insights Products

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has released four new CISA Insights products informed by U.S. intelligence and real-world events. Each of the following products provides a description of the threat, lessons learned, recommendations, and additional relevant resources:...

Architecting DNS for DDoS Durability and Resilience

My business depends on my domain name being 100% available. How do I ensure my domain name is durable to attack and resilient during Internet stress? After many years of hard work from many Internet engineers and system administrators, Akamai Technologies has been working towards DNS infrastructu...

Getting the most out of your branch local connection

In our global world of business, organizations often have multiple branch offices spanning every country. Some of these branches are quite large with their own IT infrastructure and personnel, while some are very small with just a few employees. In the past, these branch offices were connected to...

How do I know if I'm Secure?

Remember those commercials for excessive cell phone roaming coverage? The ones with clever skits highlighting the end user having no idea that their phone had crossed an invisible border and switched from primary to roaming coverage? Immediately incurring increased costs for calling, texting and...

Akamai Launches New Solution to Help Enterprise Security Teams Address the Impact of Malware, Ransomware, and DNS-based Data Exfiltration

Today, we are proud to introduce Akamai Enterprise Threat Protector ETP. ETP is designed to provide customers quick-to-deploy and easy-to-manage cloud-based protection against the impact of complex, targeted threats such malware, ransomware, phishing, and DNS‑based data exfiltration. One...

WannaCry: What We Know

On Friday, May 12, news agencies around the world reported that a new ransomware threat was spreading rapidly. Akamai's incident response teams and researchers worked quickly to understand this new threat and how to mitigate it. This blog post is a summary of what Akamai knows at this point...

Recursive DNS - The Achilles Heel Of Advanced Threats

We all know what happens whenever anyone or anything tries to access a resource on the Internet. It all starts with a DNS request that translates a URL www.akamai.com into an IP address 104.97.77.24: Now if we dive a little deeper into the DNS request flow we can see the requester make a request ...

DNS domain transfer disclosure vulnerability details-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The zone transfer operation refers to a backup server to use from the main server's data to refresh their zone database. This is running the DNS service provides a certain degree of redundancy, its purpose is to prevent the primary domain name server due to an unexpected fault becomes unavailable...