Launching the Melbourne Scrubbing Centre

We are excited to announce the launch of Akamai's newest scrubbing centre in Australia. While Akamai has been protecting ANZ customers from large and complex DDoS attacks for years, the new Melbourne scrubbing centre will allow us to provide higher resilience and reduce latency for in-region...

Introducing EQR — The Need for Petabyte-Scale Real-Time Analysis

Making Fast Decisions from Lots of Data One of the most difficult things to solve for in the Security industry is scale. Security is essentially a big data problem—data that is dynamic, and variadic. You need to correlate lots of disparate data elements that contain dynamically changing parameter...

Step 9. Protect your OS: top 10 actions to secure your environment

In “Step 9. Protect your OS” of the Top 10 actions to secure your environment blog series, we provide resources to help you configure Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection Microsoft Defender ATP to defend your Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android devices from advanced threats. In an...

Exploring botnets in VR

By Asaf Nadler & Lior Lahav Botnets often use domain generation algorithms DGAs to select a domain name, which bots use to establish communication channels with their command and control servers C2. Since Akamai analyzes over 2.2 trillion DNS requests per day, and detects thousands of active...

Ancestry: On the Vanguard of DevOps Security

Grant Johnson, Ancestry's Director, Risk & Compliance This is a guest post by Grant Johnson, Director, Risk & Compliance at Ancestry Over the past two years, Ancestry moved its entire applications and data infrastructure from local data centers to Amazon’s cloud, and this required a new approach...

Security update for containerd, docker, docker-runc, golang-github-docker-libnetwork, runc (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for containerd, docker, docker-runc, golang-github-docker-libnetwork, runc Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1079-1 Rating: important References: 1001161 1048046 1051429 1112980 1114832 1118897 1118898 1118899 1121412 1121967 1124308 Cross-References:...

CVE-2019-6149

An unquoted search path vulnerability was identified in Lenovo Dynamic Power Reduction Utility prior to version 2.2.2.0 that could allow a malicious user with local access to execute code with administrative privileges...

CVE-2019-6149

An unquoted search path vulnerability was identified in Lenovo Dynamic Power Reduction Utility prior to version 2.2.2.0 that could allow a malicious user with local access to execute code with administrative privileges...

CVE-2019-6149

An unquoted search path vulnerability was identified in Lenovo Dynamic Power Reduction Utility prior to version 2.2.2.0 that could allow a malicious user with local access to execute code with administrative privileges...

CVE-2019-6149

The CVE-2019-6149 issue is an unquoted search path vulnerability in Lenovo Dynamic Power Reduction Utility, affecting ThinkPad X1 Carbon (machine types 20KH, 20KG). The underlying root cause is an unquoted search path that could allow a local attacker to execute code with administrative privilege...

Update to Microsoft Checks

Part of the glamorous life of an ASV involves a rigorous Quality Assurance program to ensure that we are the best ASV's we can possibly be. Some of those efforts are not as readily apparent to our clients as others; but on some occasions, we like to share when our work directly benefits those who...

Recommendations for deploying the latest Attack surface reduction rules for maximum impact

The keystone to good security hygiene is limiting your attack surface. Attack surface reduction is a technique to remove or constrain exploitable behaviors in your systems. In this blog, we discuss the two attack surface reduction rules introduced in the most recent release of Windows and cover...

SUSE-SU-2019:0391-1 Security update for python-PyKMIP

This update for python-PyKMIP fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2018-1000872: Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability which was caused by exhausting the available sockets. To mitigate the issue server socket timeout was decreased bsc1120767...

How Hospitals Can Tie Cost Reduction to a Solid Data Security Program

When I have conversations with hospitals and other organizations subject to HIPAA, one of the first questions asked is "if I have a data breach, will OCR fine me, and if so, how much?" Many organizations decide to gamble: they opt to save time and money by not implementing a robust information ri...

TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: PPID Spoofing – Explorer CLSID

Summary Popular Attack Surface Reduction bypasses allow adversaries to hinder threat hunting activities by spoofing Parent Process ID. PPID to PID relationships have always been a key indicator of compromise and removing these conditions lead to false sense of security. Upon investigation its bee...

3 Infosec Reflections to Kick off 2019 & Finally Shift the Balance of Power Back to Defenders

Wow. It's already 2019. Talk about a year in 2018 that flew by! I won’t spend this entire blog talking about 2018 but, needless to say, a lot happened in 2018 and it doesn’t look to slow down anytime soon. This time of year, I like to stop and reflect on the previous year and think about moving...

#OTTuesday: Five Technologies Shaping the Future of OTT

The world of OTT is changing radically with new innovations, from player technologies to standards convergence, propelling the industry forward. As 2018 comes to a close, AkamaiTV sat down with DASH legend and Akamai's very own Will Law to get his pulse on the major trends and technologies that a...

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 -...

Best Practices for Ultra-Low Latency Streaming Using Chunked-Encoded and Chunk-Transferred CMAF

Over the last 15 years, live streaming services have grown from novelties & experiments in to profitable businesses serving an ever-growing cohort of cord-cutters and cord-nevers. Initial streaming implementations mimicked the workflows of the broadcast world, using custom servers to deliver...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: spamassassin-3.4.2-2.fc28

SpamAssassin provides you with a way to reduce if not completely eliminate Unsolicited Commercial Email SPAM from your incoming email. It can be invoked by a MDA such as sendmail or postfix, or can be called from a procmail script, .forward file, etc. It uses a genetic-algorithm evolved scoring...