Prolexic Platform Enhancements - New APJ Scrubbing Centers and More

by Don Ng and Greg Burns This October, Akamai is announcing the turn-up of two additional Prolexic DDoS mitigation scrubbing centers in Singapore and Osaka, building on the nine previous scrubbing centers turned up this year and adding to our existing APJ footprint in Sydney, Tokyo, and Hong Kong...

Wallarm NG-WAF is Now a Part of Kong Hub to Provide Better Protection for Microservices, APIs and…

Wallarm NG-WAF is Now a Part of Kong Hub to Provide Better Protection for Microservices, APIs and Serverless Thousands of companies from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises use Kong as their API gateway. With a blazingly fast performance, it comes with a perfect feature set for everyone who manag...

Building the security operations center of tomorrow—harnessing the law of data gravity

This post was coauthored by Diana Kelley, Cybersecurity Field CTO, and Sin John, EMEA Chief Security Advisor, Cybersecurity Solutions Group. Youve got a big dinner planned and your dishwasher goes on the fritz. You call the repair company and are lucky enough to get an appointment for that...

Understanding NetScaler SD-WAN Best Path Determination

The following points helps you in understanding NetScaler SD-WAN best path determination: Per-packet determination Variety of factors in determining packets assigned path Received packet from any WAN path calculates: One-way trip latency One-way loss One-way bandwidth One-way jitter Sent packet...

How You Get There Matters: "Middle-Mile" RUM to Drive CDN Strategy

Traditional RUM products make use of APIs Navigation-Timing, Resource-Timing, etc. built into browsers to help measure the performance characteristics of the loading of a web page. That is, they do their best to quantify the work required by the browser when rendering a web page. APM products use...

TLS 1.3 support is coming this spring

While March brings NCAA Madness, this year it also brought TLS 1.3, which will be coming to all Akamai customers soon! Let's give some background. TLS 1.3 is latest revision of the TLS protocol. It is also known by its older name, SSL. It is the protocol used for all secure HTTP connections on th...

February 22, 2018—KB4077528 (OS Build 15063.936)

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Troubleshooting ICA_RTT Issues on NetScaler MAS

Troubleshooting ICARTT issues on NetScaler MAS. Background ICA RTT can be thought of as a measurement of the screen lag that a user experiences while interacting with an application hosted in a session on a XenApp or XenDesktop server. ICA RTT is different from Network RTT, which is the detected...

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Multiple Linux Products

Linux kernel is the kernel used by the operating system Linux, released by the Linux Foundation in the U.S. The Linux kernel ixgbe driver and i40e/i40evf driver are among the network card drivers; DPDK is one of the data plane development kits. A denial of service vulnerability exists in several...

Citrix SD-WAN Path State Sensitivity Control Overview

Bad Loss Sensitive – Select a setting from the drop-down menu. The options are: Enable– Default If enabled, paths will be marked BAD due to loss, and will incur a path scoring penalty. Disable – Disabling Bad Loss Sensitive can be useful when the loss of bandwidth is intolerable. Custom – Select...

IPv6, it’s waiting for you

IPv6 is an expression IT professionals are likely to have seen or heard at one time, but what exactly is it? Let us give you a quick introduction, and then try to explain what it does differently by comparing it to its predecessor, IPv4. IPv4 and IPv6 are both Internet communications protocols...

Debian DSA-4054-1 : tor - security update

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Tor, a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4054. The text itself is...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4054-1] tor security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4054-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff December 03, 2017 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4054-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

4.1.12-103.9.2 - Revert 'drivers/char/mem.c: deny access in open operation when securelevel is set' Brian Maly Orabug: 27037811 4.1.12-103.9.1 - xfs: use dedicated log worker wq to avoid deadlock with cil wq Brian Foster Orabug: 27013241 - scsi: scsitransportiscsi: fix the issue that iscsiifrx...

Security and Quality Rollup for .NET Framework 3.5 for Windows Server 2012 (KB 4040979)

Security and Quality Rollup for .NET Framework 3.5 for Windows Server 2012 KB 4040979 Notice This update is included in the Security and Quality Rollup that's dated November 14, 2017. This update was previously released as part of the Preview of Quality Rollup on October 17, 2017, the Security an...

Description of the Security and Quality Rollup for the .NET Framework 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, and 4.7 for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and for the .NET Framework 4.6 for Windows Server 2008 SP2: September 12, 2017

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Blizzard Entertainment Hit With Weekend DDoS Attack

Blizzard Entertainment reported a crippling DDoS attack over the weekend creating chronic latency and connection issues for players of games Overwatch, World of Warcraft and others. The DDoS attack has since subsided, according to Blizzard, but users are still grousing on Twitter over lingering...

SUSE-SU-2017:1718-1 Security update for openvpn-openssl1

This update for openvpn-openssl1 fixes the following issues: - Some parts of the certificate-parsing code did not always clear all allocated memory. This would have allowed clients to leak a few bytes of memory for each connection attempt, thereby facilitating a quite inefficient DoS attack on th...

Simple tc Command Wrapper Tool: tcconfig

Simple tc Command Wrapper Tool A Simple tc command wrapper tool. Easy to set up traffic control of network bandwidth/latency/packet-loss to a network interface. Traffic control features Traffic shaping target Apply traffic shaping rules to specific target: Outgoing/Incoming packets Certain IP...