Cheating at Professional Poker

Interesting story about someone who is almost certainly cheating at professional poker. But then I start to see things that seem so obvious, but I wonder whether they aren't just paranoia after hours and hours of digging into the mystery. Like the fact that he starts wearing a hat that has a...

Device Hopping Shoppers Drive Up Bounce Rates Leading Into Holiday 2019

Executive Summary In 2018, Akamai reported for the first time that shoppers used mobile devices more than desktops for all the major peak traffic events we measured. Interestingly, they often don't complete their purchase on a mobile device. If the most recently concluded back-to-school shopping...

E-commerce: Bad bots are ready for the holidays. Are you?

The busiest time for online retailers is almost upon us—the holiday season. Each business is looking at ways to take advantage of cyber week when a significant portion of annual sales are made. At this time, preparation is well underway for Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions. But another...

Fair Share calculation for Bandwidth provisioning on SD-WAN

By default, all branches and WAN services Virtual Path/Internet/Intranet receive equal share of the bandwidth. When there is high difference in terms of bandwidth requirement or availability between the connecting sites, provisioning can be changed accordingly. By default, the ratio is 1000 Share...

Fedora Update for soundtouch FEDORA-2018-09802a742a

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...

Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems in H2 2018

H2 2018 in figures All statistical data used in this report was collected using the Kaspersky Security Network KSN, a distributed antivirus network. The data was received from those KSN users who gave their consent to have data anonymously transferred from their computers. We do not identify the...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-18360

In changeportsettings in drivers/usb/serial/ioti.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11.3, local users could cause a denial of service by division-by-zero in the serial device layer by trying to set very high baud rates...

CVE-2017-2411

In iOS before 11.2, exchange rates were retrieved from HTTP rather than HTTPS. This was addressed by enabling HTTPS for exchange rates...

CVE-2017-2411

In iOS before 11.2, exchange rates were retrieved from HTTP rather than HTTPS. This was addressed by enabling HTTPS for exchange rates...

Design/Logic Flaw

In iOS before 11.2, exchange rates were retrieved from HTTP rather than HTTPS. This was addressed by enabling HTTPS for exchange rates...

CVE-2017-2411

The CVE-2017-2411 entry describes an issue in iOS prior to 11.2 where exchange rates were fetched over HTTP instead of HTTPS. Apple’s security content (iOS 11.2) documents this under the Calculator entry, noting that an attacker on a privileged network could alter currency conversion rates. The r...

CVE-2017-2411

In iOS before 11.2, exchange rates were retrieved from HTTP rather than HTTPS. This was addressed by enabling HTTPS for exchange rates...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: soundtouch-2.1.1-1.fc29

SoundTouch is a LGPL-licensed open-source audio processing library for changing the Tempo, Pitch and Playback Rates of audio streams or files. The SoundTouch library is suited for application developers writing sound processing tools that require tempo/pitch control functionality, or just for...

Mobile Shopping Growth Accelerates During Diwali

Diwali is the Hindu festival of lights, celebrated every autumn in October or November. According to Redseer Consulting, the sales volume during the festival usually accounts for about 35%-40% of the annual sales of e-commerce in India; for 2018 Redseer predicts $2.5 to $3 billion gross merchandi...

Enhancing Network Performance with Packet Pacing

Introduction Akamai's Smooth Delivery is a network performance enhancement initiative spearheaded by the Protocol Optimization team. It consists of two parts - each focused on reducing congestion while enhancing network performance. 1. TCP Pacing - The topic of this post 2. Rate Limiting -...

CVE-2018-11870

Buffer overwrite can occur when the legacy rates count received from the host is not checked against the maximum number of legacy rates in Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wear in version MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9635M, MDM9640, MDM9650, MSM8996AU, QCA4531, QCA6174A, QCA6574AU,...

Buffer overflow

Buffer overwrite can occur when the legacy rates count received from the host is not checked against the maximum number of legacy rates in Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wear in version MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9635M, MDM9640, MDM9650, MSM8996AU, QCA4531, QCA6174A, QCA6574AU,...

It will take more than web pages that load faster to boost holiday conversion

When designing websites to meet peak traffic demands, it is vital to look beyond basic metrics such as page load speed. Providing visual content optimized for both desktop and mobile devices, and combating security threats will help you drive traffic and improve conversion rates during the holida...

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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: soundtouch-2.0.0-6.fc27

SoundTouch is a LGPL-licensed open-source audio processing library for changing the Tempo, Pitch and Playback Rates of audio streams or files. The SoundTouch library is suited for application developers writing sound processing tools that require tempo/pitch control functionality, or just for...