Akamai Summarizes Service Disruption (RESOLVED)

At 15:45 UTC on July 22, 2021, a software configuration update triggered a bug in our Secure Edge Content Delivery Network impacting that network's domain name service DNS system the system that directs browsers to websites for that specific service. This caused a disruption impacting availabilit...

Akamai Summarizes Service Disruption (RESOLVED)

At 15:45 UTC on July 22, 2021, a software configuration update triggered a bug in our Secure Edge Content Delivery Network impacting that network's domain name service DNS system the system that directs browsers to websites for that specific service. This caused a disruption impacting availabilit...

Securing an Internet Made From 'Duck Tape and Baling Wire'

LAS VEGAS–The Internet that we use today was not designed as a cohesive network. It was put together from found bits and pieces over the course of the last few decades, and, as major bugs such as Heartbleed and others have shown, it’s a frighteningly fragile construction. Attackers know this as...

HackerOne Bug Bounty Platform Lands Top Microsoft Security Expert

With bug bounties being all the rage, the platforms that support them are emerging as important pieces of the security research, disclosure and reward ecosystem. One of those platforms, HackerOne, has scored a major coup in hiring Katie Moussouris, the driving force behind Microsoft’s bounty...

Six months later, DNS still taking a hit

It’s been more than six months since Dan Kaminksy detailed the problems he had found lurking in the DNS system, and the coordinated patching effort that followed his discovery was nothing short of extraordinary. A huge percentage of the vulnerable servers were patched before the details of the fl...