What's New in Security (Part 2)

Welcome to the Akamai Platform Update! We're presenting an entire week of learning about Akamai's recent product updates. Each day, we'll highlight our latest innovations in each area of the Akamai Intelligent Platform...

Balancing Protection with Performance to Double Down on DDoS

Combating DDoS attacks with the highest quality of mitigation means having the right platform, processes, and people in place. At Akamai, we're recognized as a leader for DDoS mitigation solutions based on our Edge DNS, CDN edge-scrubbing, and cloud-scrubbing platforms that are designed to keep...

August 2015 anti-malware platform update for Windows Defender in Windows 8.1 and Windows 8

August 2015 anti-malware platform update for Windows Defender in Windows 8.1 and Windows 8 This anti-malware platform update for Windows Defender updates Windows Defender services, drivers, and UIs in Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, Windows RT, and Windows 8. This update has prerequisites. Microsoft...

Why Many People Got Mysterious Valentine’s Day Texts Today

The issue was reportedly caused by a maintenance update made to “messaging platforms of multiple carriers in the US."...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.4 on RHEL 6 security update

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, ...

Rockstar Games: Exploiting Misconfigured CORS to Steal User Information

In this report, the researcher demonstrated how a CORS misconfiguration was allowing user details, such as email addresses and IDs, to be shared inappropriately. They also provided a POC which showed how an attacker could exploit this remotely. This issue was resolved in a platform update to our...

JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 7u21 and 6u45 (Deployment)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment JRE component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 17 and earlier and 6 Update 43 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Deployment, a different vulnerability than...

Stable Channel Update

The Stable channel has been updated to 23.0.1271.91 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and ChromeFrame platforms. This version fixes several issues including: No audio from Flash content when speaker configuration is set to Quadraphonic Issue: 159924 Aw, Snap renderer crash on Windows Server 2003 Issue:...

Platform Update for Windows 7 (KB2670838)

Platform Update for Windows 7 KB2670838...

Platform Update for Windows 7 x64-Edition (KB2670838)

Platform Update for Windows 7 x64-Edition KB2670838...

Platform update for Windows Server 2008 R2 x64-Edition (KB2670838)

Platform update for Windows Server 2008 R2 x64-Edition KB2670838...

Platform Update Blocker

This is a block to keep the platform update from offering to certain laptop systems with hybrid graphics...