Greening the Digital Economy

COVID-19 and related quarantine protocols have pushed the world even more online than it already was. Global energy consumption for all things digital has been increasing by about 9% per year between 2015 and 2020, and is tracking to be responsible for about 8% of greenhouse gas GHG emission by...

Is 97% Network Traffic Offload Interesting?

Sports, gaming, and other live events have the potential to overwhelm network capacity due to the sheer volume of traffic generated when large numbers of viewers or gamers engage. These "peak" events may only occur once a month or even once a year sports championships, election results, gaming...

PT-2020-3001 · Microsoft · Windows Codecs Library

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Microsoft Windows Codecs Library affected versions not specified Description: A remote code execution issue exists due to errors in handling objects in memory. This can be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code using a specially...

Me on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps

I was quoted in BuzzFeed: "My problem with contact tracing apps is that they have absolutely no value," Bruce Schneier, a privacy expert and fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, told BuzzFeed News. "I'm not even talking about the privacy concerns, I mea...

Applied ThreadFix: Security teams collaborating with development teams

Modern enterprises are distributed. Most ThreadFix deployments have stakeholders spanning development and security teams and those team members are spread around the globe. To support these distributed organizations, ThreadFix has a number of collaboration features that make teams more efficient...

Ensuring Business Continuity During Peak Times: 6 Recommendations to Optimize Streaming and Download Bandwidth Usage

A sudden and dramatic surge in internet traffic, much of which is driven by video streaming and game and software download events, is testing network infrastructures with unprecedented volume. The 30% increase in global traffic Akamai delivered from the edge during the past month, compared to the...

Managing Team Burn Out

According to the World Health Organization: “Burn-out is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. It is characterized by three dimensions: feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion increased mental distance from one’s job, or...

Manage Origin Offload and Egress Fees for Live and On-Demand

Origin offload has received more attention in the past few years as more customers have moved their origins to the cloud. As such, the cost to access data has become an important issue. To support this move, Akamai has developed Cloud Wrapper to provide customers with a way to securely connect to...

Performance Testing: Justifying Cost and Performance Improvements (Part 2)

As mentioned in the first blog in this series, Melanie, a performance engineer at VMware Carbon Black, built both baseline and investigative tests for the engineers that develop and maintain the company’s reputation services. Here’s a deeper look at these tests and how they helped the company...

nmapAutomator - Tool To Automate All Of The Process Of Recon/Enumeration

nmapAutomator A script that you can run in the background! Summary The main goal for this script is to automate all of the process of recon/enumeration that is run every time, and instead focus our attention on real pen testing. This will ensure two things: 1 Automate nmap scans. 2 Always have so...

Ships engines, a guide for pen testers

I spent several years as a ships engineer before straying in to pen testing. Ships used to be fairly secure; they were physically isolated at sea. Satcoms were scarily expensive, usually available only to the captain for business-critical communication. Even satphone use was heavily rationed. All...

DFIRtriage - Digital Forensic Acquisition Tool For Windows Based Incident Response

DFIRtriage is a tool intended to provide Incident Responders with rapid host data. Written in Python, the code has been compiled to eliminate the dependency of python on the target host. The tool will run a variety of commands automatically upon execution. The acquired data will reside in the roo...

openSUSE Security Update : links (openSUSE-2019-2185)

This update for links fixes the following issues : links was updated to 2.20.1 : - libevent bug fixes links was updated to 2.20 : - Security bug fixed: when links was connected to tor, it would send real dns requests outside the tor network when the displayed page contains link elements with...

PingCastle - Get Active Directory Security At 80% In 20% Of The Time

The risk level regarding Active Directory security has changed. Several vulnerabilities have been made popular with tools like mimikatz or sites likes adsecurity.org. Ping Castle is a tool designed to assess quickly the Active Directory security level with a methodology based on risk assessment a...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: python-mitogen-0.2.8-1.fc30

Mitogen is a Python library for writing distributed self-replicating progra ms. There is no requirement for installing packages, copying files around, writ ing shell snippets, upfront configuration, or providing any secondary link to a remote machine aside from an SSH connection. Due to its origi...

Fedora Update for cyrus-imapd FEDORA-2019-309f559057

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Trigmap - A Wrapper For Nmap To Automate The Pentest

Trigmap is a wrapper for Nmap. You can use it to easily start Nmap scan and especially to collect informations into a well organized directory hierarchy. The use of Nmap makes the script portable easy to run not only on Kali Linux and very efficient thanks to the optimized Nmap algorithms. Detail...

Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC—Part 2: Organizing people

In the second post in our series, we focus on the most valuable resource in the security operations center SOC—our people. This series is designed to share our approach and experience with operations, so you can use what we learned to improve your SOC. In Part 1: Organization, we covered the SOC’...

Get, Set, Election, Go: Preparing For The 2019 Elections - Chapter Two

Chapter 2: Election Day Challenges and Opportunities for Digital News Publishers It will be all about optimizing for Scale, Performance, and Efficiency while maintaining their security posture ... If 2014 was anything to go by for us at Akamai supporting digital publishers, 2019 is going to be an...

Valuing IR Preparedness: Identifying and Communicating ROI

In the information security community, a proactive approach to incident response is always considered best practice. Reacting in the moment can drain resources and often, the full impact of the incident may take weeks or even months to remediate. Despite this, making a case to management for the...