Maintaining an Energy-Efficient Edge Platform

Over the past 20 years, we've seen a lot of growth at Akamai. When I started at Akamai, we used to have traffic peaks of almost 200 Mbps. From that fledgling startup, Akamai has now grown to such a scale that we almost doubled network capacity in 2020 and were able to serve peaks of almost 200...

Sustainability at Akamai: An Efficient Platform Powered by Energy Aggregation

If I had a dollar for every time I heard "2020 was an unprecedented year", I could fund a clean energy project myself. And while we're tired of hearing it, it's true. Among the pandemic, U.S. presidential election, social justice movements, the finalization of Brexit, and many other new and...

Create Efficient Well-Architected Cloud Infrastructure

This article explores the Performance Efficiency pillar of the Amazon Web Services and Azure Well-Architected Framework. We will examine how to create performance efficiency in the compute, storage, database, and network elements of cloud infrastructures...

Microsoft HEVC Video Extensions Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CNVD-2021-70142)

Microsoft HEVC Video Extensions is a video extension application from Microsoft USA. The application enables computers and devices to read High Efficiency Video Coding or HEVC videos. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft HEVC Video Extensions. An attacker could exploit this...

Microsoft HEVC Video Extensions 安全漏洞

Microsoft HEVC Video Extensions is a video extension application from Microsoft USA. The application enables computers and devices to read High Efficiency Video Coding or HEVC videos. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft HEVC Video Extensions. An attacker could exploit this...

Microsoft HEVC Video Extensions 安全漏洞

Microsoft HEVC Video Extensions is a video extension application from Microsoft USA. The application enables computers and devices to read High Efficiency Video Coding or HEVC videos. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft HEVC Video Extensions. An attacker could exploit this...

Guangzhou Redfan Technology Co., Ltd. ioffice exists file upload vulnerability

Redfan Technology is mainly committed to the government, enterprises, ships, medical and other industries information technology services, to assist customers to optimize the management process, innovative management model, to enhance the overall management efficiency and competitiveness. Guangzh...

Smart DNS for the New Network: Optimizing Content Delivery

This is the third in a series of blog posts that will discuss how smart DNS resolvers can enhance ongoing internet service provider ISP and mobile network operator MNO network transformation efforts, such as the transition to 5G, better integration of Wi-Fi, and new network designs that optimize...

Smart DNS: Delivering the Best Subscriber Experience

This is the second in a series of blog posts that discuss how smart DNS resolvers can enhance ongoing network transformation efforts such as the transition to 5G, better integration of Wi-Fi, and new network designs that optimize the edge to improve the subscriber experience, service delivery, an...

Distinguishing Among DNS Services Part 2: The Economics

This is Part 2 of a 3-part blog series highlighting some of the distinguishing aspects of Akamai's DNS services, Edge DNS and Global Traffic Management. Part 1 focused on Akamai's DNS platform and what sets it apart. In Part 2, we take a closer look at the economics of DNS pricing models and why...

CISO with a small security team? Learn from your peers' experience with this free e-book

CISOs with small security teams hold an intensive juggling act. They're responsible for sustaining the company's security resilience, ensuring compliance is adhered to and implementing privacy controls. In between these tasks, they need to follow up on board updates, lead cross-team communication...

CISO with a small security team? Learn from your peers' experience with this free e-book

CISOs with small security teams hold an intensive juggling act. They're responsible for sustaining the company's security resilience, ensuring compliance is adhered to and implementing privacy controls. In between these tasks, they need to follow up on board updates, lead cross-team communication...

Using LL-HLS with byte-range addressing to achieve interoperability in low latency streaming

Introduction HTTP Adaptive Segmented HAS streaming began to be used at scale from 2008 to 2012, with the advent of Move Networks, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, Apple HLS, Adobe HDS, and MPEG DASH. With the typical 10s segment durations of the day, livestream latencies measuring latency as the time...

GaussDB Kernel: Resource Labels

You can add a resource label to a group of database resources to control them, improving resource management efficiency. Therefore, you are advised to enable enablesecuritypolicy. Copyright C 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are...

Forrester TEI study: Azure Sentinel delivers 201 percent ROI over 3 years and a payback of less than 6 months

2020 has been a transitional year, ushering in broad changes in how, and where, we work. Security operations SecOps teams face more significant challenges than ever as they protect the organization in this rapidly changing environment. These teams need a flexible, cost-effective, and efficient...

Forrester TEI study: Azure Sentinel delivers 201 percent ROI over 3 years and a payback of less than 6 months

2020 has been a transitional year, ushering in broad changes in how, and where, we work. Security operations SecOps teams face more significant challenges than ever as they protect the organization in this rapidly changing environment. These teams need a flexible, cost-effective, and efficient...

Microsoft HEVC Video Extensions Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CNVD-2020-65155)

Microsoft HEVC Video Extensions is a video extension application from Microsoft USA. The application enables computers and devices to read High Efficiency Video Coding or HEVC videos. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft HEVC Video Extensions. No detailed vulnerability detail...

Microsoft HEVC Video Extensions Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Microsoft HEVC Video Extensions is a video extension application from Microsoft USA. The application enables computers and devices to read High Efficiency Video Coding or HEVC videos. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft HEVC Video Extensions. No detailed vulnerability detail...

x86: Race condition in Xen mapping code

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The Xen code handling the updating of the hypervisor's own pagetables tries to use 2MiB and 1GiB superpages as much as possible to maximize TLB efficiency. Some of the operations for checking and coalescing superpages take non-negligible amount of time; to avoid potential lock...

Vulnerability fixed in Windows

Microsoft has fixed a vulnerability in the Windows Codecs Library. Users who had installed the HEVC codec from the Microsoft Store had installed it were vulnerable to the execution of arbitrary code by a remote malicious person. The malicious party to do this must induce the victim to play a rogu...