March 2020 -- What's New in Security, Part 1

Welcome to Akamai's March 2020 Release! This release offers a week of product updates, with each day highlighting continued innovations across a different area of Akamai's product portfolio: Monday and Tuesday feature two days of security updates. There's a lot going on in Akamai's security...

Businesses Will Buy Down Risk With Defense-in-Depth – 2020 Trend #5

As 2019 came to an end, Imperva CTO Kunal Anand began working with our global research team, Imperva Labs, to put together a list of the most important cybersecurity issues security leaders should be prepared for in 2020. He published his list in the blog, “Top 5 Cybersecurity Trends to Prepare f...

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Building the Azure IoT Edge Security Daemon in Rust

Azure IoT Edge is an open source, cross platform software project from the Azure IoT team at Microsoft that seeks to solve the problem of managing distribution of compute to the edge of your on-premise network from the cloud. This post explains some of the rationale behind our choice of Rust as t...

Protecting the New Online Frontiers: Akamai on Watch

At Akamai, security is at the heart of everything we create. After more than two decades on the front lines of the Internet revolution, Akamai continues to pioneer strategies, products, and solutions that keep the world's information safe and secure. We protect you from the data center, beyond th...

3 Reasons Your Business Needs Security at the Edge

As a security professional, no one knows better than you that the attack surface is shifting and continues to expand across an ever-widening area. Our interconnected digital lives are wreaking havoc with the idea of "the perimeter." As digital attacks continue to grow in size and volume, and are...

From the Core to the Edge: 3 Security Imperatives and the Evolving Digital Topology

The breathtaking pace at which everyone and everything is becoming connected is having a profound effect on digital business, from delivering exceptional experiences, to ensuring the security of your customers, applications, and workforce. Consider this: There are over 20 billion connected device...

Akamai Received Top Scores in Gartner's New Report "Critical Capabilities for Cloud Web Application Firewalls Services"

Are you in the process of selecting a web application firewall WAF or thinking about whether your current solution is adequate? For many organizations selecting the right WAF to protect their business is not an easy task. The threat landscape is changing fast and hackers are very creative in thei...

What's New In Security

It's that time of year again. Here at our global headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the days are getting shorter at least in terms of sunrise and sunset. Gone are the 90 degree days of summer; 60 is the new normal. And as we are now in the midst of the final months of the year, Starbucks i...

Akamai Edge Security - Intelligent protection coming to a city near you!

Having knowledge and visibility is just as important as products and technology when it comes to detecting and combating the latest attacks on the Internet. At Akamai, we protect customers from many of the largest and most sophisticated attacks in the world, and we are launching a series of Akama...

EUVD-2018-1579

Microsoft Edge in Microsoft Windows 10 1607, 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allows a security feature bypass, due to how Edge handles different-origin requests, aka "Microsoft Edge Security Feature Bypass"...

Microsoft Edge Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-03511)

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems released by Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. Edge is one of the web browsers that comes with the system. A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in Edge in Microsoft Windows 10 versions 1607, 1703, and Windows Server 2016, which stems fro...

Microsoft Edge Chakra JIT - Out-of-Bounds Write Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category dos / poc // Here's the PoC demonstrating OOB write. function optarr, start, end for let i = start; i end; i++ if i === 10 i += 0; // -- a arri = 2.3023e-320; function main let arr = new Array100; arr.fill1.1; for let i = 0; i 1000; i++ optarr, 0, 3; optar...

CVE-2017-11874

Microsoft Edge in Microsoft Windows 10 1703, 1709, Windows Server, version 1709, and ChakraCore allows an attacker to bypass Control Flow Guard CFG to run arbitrary code on a target system, due to how Microsoft Edge handles accessing memory in code compiled by the Edge Just-In-Time JIT compiler,...

Microsoft Edge Security Restriction Bypass Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-05760)

Microsoft Edge is the web browser built into the Windows 10 version. A remote security bypass vulnerability exists in the implementation of Edge Content Security Policy CSP when it fails to properly validate certain documents, which can be exploited by an attacker to trick a user into loading a...

Microsoft Edge - Array.reverse Overflow Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category dos / poc left = uint32length - seg-left + seg-length; Can become a very large value as length is larger than seg-length and seg-left is generally 0. This can cause the segment length to become larger than the segment size the next time...

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CVE-2016-4132

Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.242 and earlier, as used in the Adobe Flash libraries in Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 and 11 and Microsoft Edge, has unknown impact and attack vectors, a different vulnerability than other CVEs listed in MS16-083...