How to Tell a Job Offer from an ID Theft Trap

One of the oldest scams around -- the fake job interview that seeks only to harvest your personal and financial data -- is on the rise, the FBI warns. Heres the story of a recent LinkedIn impersonation scam that led to more than 100 people getting duped, and one almost-victim who decided the job...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in Environmental Electricity Supervision System of Jiangsu Ankre Electric Appliance Manufacturing Co.

Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ankrui Electric Co., Ltd. and is a high-tech enterprise integrating production, research and development, sales and service, which is committed to providing system solutions of energy efficiency management and electricity safety for the user end. A SQL injecti...

How Akamai Employees Showed Up for Akamai Earth Month

Photo from an Akamai employee who took her bike out to enjoy nature during Akamai Earth Month. Akamai employees across the globe showed up in full force for Akamai Earth Month 2021 -- our campaign to help employees take small actions at home and in their community to make a difference for the...

Meet critical infrastructure security compliance requirements with Microsoft 365

Critical infrastructure operators face a hostile cyber threat environment and a complex compliance landscape. Every operator of an industrial control system also operates an IT network to service its productivity needs. A supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA system operator of a power...

Announcing Akamai's 2030 Sustainability Goals

There are 4.66 billion yes, with a B internet users. Rough math will tell us that's three in every five people around the world -- talk about lessening the six degrees. I see head nods and shoulder shrugs. 4.66 billion people? Ehh, that number feels a bit low, especially given the pervasive role...

Taking Action This Earth Month

By: Akamai Earth Month Guest Blog by Kenda Carlson, Senior Manager, WeSpire There's a fascinating human phenomenon often studied in the behavioral science field called the intention-action gap. It's when you have every intention of doing something, but it just doesn't happen. It's when you say yo...

Arbitrary Password Reset Vulnerability in Hikvision's Integrated Video and Environmental Monitoring Management System

Hikvision is a video-centric IoT solution provider, offering integrated security, smart business and big data services. An arbitrary password reset vulnerability exists in Hikvision's integrated video and environmental surveillance management system, which can be exploited by attackers to...

Akamai's New ESG Office: A Catalyst for Environmental and Social Progress

We're proud of the progress Akamai has made in environmental, social, and governance ESG performance. From reducing our greenhouse gas emissions by 30% and powering our platform with 50% renewable energy, to the millions invested in STEM education grants for underserved students, giving back to o...

Akamai's New ESG Office: A Catalyst for Environmental and Social Progress

We're proud of the progress Akamai has made in environmental, social, and governance ESG performance...

Compromise of U.S. Water Treatment Facility

Summary On February 5, 2021, unidentified cyber actors obtained unauthorized access to the supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA system at a U.S. drinking water treatment facility. The unidentified actors used the SCADA system’s software to increase the amount of sodium hydroxide, also...

hyper crate for Rust environment issue vulnerability

hyper crate for Rust is a Rust-based HTTP library. An environmental issue vulnerability exists in hyper crate for Rust that arises from an unreasonable environmental factor in a networked system or product...

Red Hat Undertow Environmental Issues Vulnerabilities

Red Hat Undertow is a Java-based embedded web server from Red Hat USA and is the default web server for Wildfly Java Application Server. Red Hat Undertow is vulnerable to an environmental issue. The following products and versions are affected: Undertow versions prior to 2.2.0, Undertow versions...

Sustainability Requires Collaboration: Akamai's Growing Community and Supply Chain Initiatives

picture courtesy of One Tree Planted Akamai is committed to collaboration that inspires worldwide change. We know it's not enough to be environmentally conscious solely in our own business. To make a true impact on climate change, we need to use our unique position as a global corporation to...

Our ESG Commitment: Investing in a Better World

Environmental, social, and governance ESG issues are quickly emerging as a key concern for investors. To use a musical analogy, the bow is just resting on the first string, with more notes sure to follow. At Akamai, our ESG instrument is well tuned and ready for the symphony to come, as evidenced...

Working Together with Our Customers to Build a Sustainable Future

By now, we hope you've read Monday's and Tuesday's blog posts announcing the release of our annual sustainability report, our sustainability program, and the technical innovation behind it. Whilst it's clear Akamai has made great strides on sustainability, in this blog post I will discuss the...

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...

Ransomware Attackers Publish 4K Private Scottish Gov Agency Files

On the heels of a ransomware attack against the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency SEPA, attackers have now reportedly published more than 4,000 files stolen from the agency – including contracts and strategy documents. After hitting SEPA on Christmas Eve with the attack, cybercriminals...

Huawei CampusInsight and ManageOne Environmental Issues Vulnerability

Huawei ManageOne is a cloud data center management solution, Huawei CampusInsight is a campus network management system, Huawei CampusInsight and ManageOne have security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers to cause information leakage...

CES 2021 Gadgets: Worst in Privacy and Security Awards

This year’s Consumer Electronics Show was hampered by the pandemic, but that didn’t stop an expert panel from convening to award this year’s dubious CES 2021 Worst in Show honors in the context of gadget privacy and security. Overall trends from the week included ever-connected devices constantly...