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Cyberweek 2020 Attracted Both Online Shoppers and DDoS Attackers
As we close out 2020, it should come as no surprise that Cyberweek the week of Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday proved big for DDoS attacks. Threat actors were out in force during this key shopping season, and they shifted their sights toward disrupting digital commerce-related industries. This...
Can Edge Computing Exist Without the Edge? Part 1: The Edge
If the title sounds like a trick question, it really depends on who you ask. Semantically, it seems clear that if you take the "edge" and combine it with "computing" you get edge computing. But if you have been reading headlines, you would be justified in having doubts that the answer is that...
Black Hat Presentation - Web Cache Entanglement
Overview Akamai is aware of the 'Web Cache Entanglement: Novel Pathways to Poisoning' presentation at BlackHat on August 5, 2020. Two security vulnerabilities related to our content delivery networks' caching functionality were presented as part of this research. Akamai would like to thank James...
Is 97% Network Traffic Offload Interesting?
Sports, gaming, and other live events have the potential to overwhelm network capacity due to the sheer volume of traffic generated when large numbers of viewers or gamers engage. These "peak" events may only occur once a month or even once a year sports championships, election results, gaming...
Making the Most of SPS Secure Consumer: Go To Market Best Practices
Seeing opportunities as residential internet services have been transformed into business internet services, ISPs and Mobile Network Operators MNOs are making moves to use the power of their networks to protect customers. As they progress through the decision and deployment cycles, we often get...
PSD2 and Open Banking -- The New Way to Work Your Money
The main question behind the Payment Services Directive PSD2 and Open Banking: Is it innovative or just platitudes against competition? Open Banking allows a third party to perform certain acts with your financial institution on your behalf, such as enacting a payment or reviewing your spending...
Akamai Improves Global Delivery Performance
As part of Akamai's ongoing investments in improving delivery performance, last month we completed the worldwide deployment of the Bottleneck Bandwidth and RTT BBR TCP congestion control algorithm across our Edge Platform. The BBR algorithm is designed to help improve the reliability and resilien...
Streamline OTT Delivery using Cloud Origins with Cloud Wrapper
By 2020, an estimated 92% of all workloads will be processed in cloud data centers. The emergence of public cloud providers has changed the way organizations build, deploy and manage their applications and workflows. For organizations that've made the decision to move their video workflows to the...
Go Live! Addressable, Ad-Supported, Live Video At Scale
Live streaming poses a unique set of challenges and online audiences can only be monetized to the extent that they remain engaged. From an advertising perspective, the viewing experience between your live content and the ads needs to not only be seamless, but also highly targeted in order to...
ARE YOU LEAVING YOUR SECURITY BACKDOOR OPEN?
Gartner predicts that enterprises will spend $96 Billion on cyber security this year, up 8% from their spend in 2017. That's a big chunk of change. To put it into context, that spend is in the same ballpark as the individual GDPs of Venezuela, Sri Lanka and Puerto Rico in 2018. Despite this,...
Illuminating the Path to Digital Maturity
Research By Akamai and Forrester Sheds New Light on Digital Experience Challenges and Opportunities Nearly every business today is striving to create and deliver digital experiences that stand apart. But it's no small task turning those visions into reality. Moreover, there's little room for erro...
Are you ready for the holidays?
It's November, which means the holiday season is upon us and retailers are working tirelessly to get their websites, apps and infrastructures ready to deliver a secure and exceptional customer experience during the peak holiday season. If past data is any indication of things to come, 2017 promis...
Advanced, Targeted Threats: What do They Mean for Your Bottom Line?
Too often, we are so focused on our day-to-day that we neglect to consider the bigger picture. I have been writing about recursive DNS and threat intelligence, Domain Generation Algorithms DGAs, and DNS-based data exfiltration assuming that the vast majority of readers are familiar with the...
WannaCry: What We Know
On Friday, May 12, news agencies around the world reported that a new ransomware threat was spreading rapidly. Akamai's incident response teams and researchers worked quickly to understand this new threat and how to mitigate it. This blog post is a summary of what Akamai knows at this point...
Akamai Wins with Live OTT at NAB
The latest version of Akamai's Media Services Live streaming solution, featuring the addition of new liveOrigin capabilities specifically for live and 24/7 linear OTT video delivery, earned two awards at last week's 2017 NAB Show in Las Vegas. Streaming Media named it one of its six "Best of NAB"...
DNS Cybersquatting: The Case for Edge DNS Zone Protect
Cybersquatting, also known as domain squatting, is a type of scam that mimics a brand's domain to confuse potential victims and gain their trust. According to Revision Legal, “Cybersquatting is prohibited in the U.S. by federal law under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act ACPA.” These...
Over 25% of Malicious JavaScript Is Being Obfuscated
Last year, Akamai released research on obfuscation techniques being used by cybercriminals to create malicious JavaScript. The code is unreadable, un-debuggable, and as a result, much more challenging to analyze and detect...
Targeted Cache Control
Content delivery networks CDNs have been around and have evolved over a long time in internet years. They all speak HTTP and you can safely rely on them to work with just about anything else that speaks HTTP. This is the beauty of standards -- HTTP in this case. What you cannot count on is there...
Akamai Platform Update: New Security Enhancements That Intelligently Automate Application and API Security, Mitigate Online Fraud, and Reduce Burden on Security Professionals
Today is Day 2 of Akamai's Platform Update. Yesterday, we talked about the acceleration of modern app development and how we're empowering users to shift more compute and data to the edge. From the core to the cloud to the edge, the applications and APIs that power modern web experiences must als...
Why FIDO2 Is the Answer to Better Security
A groundbreaking increase in security incidents is affecting governments around the world. In light of this, the United States issued a formal order to implement a robust set of security measures designed to improve the security of federal systems. In his most recent executive order, President...
2020 DDoS Extortion Campaign -- A Sequel More Thrilling Than the Original
Costarring Susan McReynolds and Tom Emmons As you might imagine, as the go-to enterprise DDoS mitigation experts, our phones have been "ringing off the hook" as the global extortion DDoS campaign sequel rages on. It's bigger, badder, and features a broader cast of criminal characters than seen...
Akamai Edge Cloud: Scaling IoT, Part 1
The Internet of Things IoT ecosystem is an exciting emerging market that is disrupting the way we design infrastructure to support businesses. Smart devices, homes, cities, cars, and automation supporting the Industry 4.0 industrial revolution are all placing new demands on existing internet...
Tale of the Tape: Top 5 Reasons Phishing Attacks Haven't Dried Up
One of my favourite websites is archive.org OK, so I'm a nerd. For anyone not familiar with this website, it's essentially a time machine that allows you to go back and look at pretty much any site from a point in time over the past 20-odd years. Recently I came across a story on the BBC website...
Greening the Digital Economy
COVID-19 and related quarantine protocols have pushed the world even more online than it already was. Global energy consumption for all things digital has been increasing by about 9% per year between 2015 and 2020, and is tracking to be responsible for about 8% of greenhouse gas GHG emission by...
Mitigating Credential Stuffing Attacks in the Financial Sector
If You Think Multi-Factor Authentication Prevents Credential Stuffing, Think Again! Financial services firms around the world are experiencing credential stuffing attacks at an alarming rate. Cybercriminals are using readily available automation tools, botnets, and compromised account credentials...
Designing the Smart Experience at Akamai HQ
We are now 90 days out from a major milestone for Akamai: the opening of our new headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The state-of-the-art tower in the tech hub of Kendall Square is particularly exciting for me in my dual roles as CIO and SVP of Global Services & Support, because it marks th...
Enterprise Threat Protector as a Security Enabler in 2020
In the early 2000s, security was mostly focused on perimeter separation between the trusted corporate internal network and the untrusted everything else. Separation was very clear, as most corporate applications were inside the perimeter and users were office based, with a very low amount of remo...
#OTTuesday: How to Secure the Bank of OTT
What does the concept of Herd Immunity have to do with OTT? To find out, I spoke with security expert Jay Coley for this AkamaiTV interview at IBC. Jay explained the biology - and the power - of cooperation in the face of growing security risks to broadcasters. Herd immunity is the concept that t...
Summer SOTI - Web Attacks
Continuing Changes Welcome to the second blog post for the Summer 2018 State of the Internet / Security. If you've read the SOTI / Security report before, much of what you see here should be familiar, though the time frame we're looking at is the six months from November 2017 to April 2018, inste...
Akamai, Mirai, & The FBI
Through the end of 2016, and throughout 2017, multiple Mirai-based botnets targeted multiple Akamai customers. The very first Mirai attack against Akamai was a multi-day barrage, weighing in at a peak of 620/Gbps that sent shockwaves across the Internet. The same botnet would go on to conduct...
Not all Cloud Solutions are Created Equal
The errant swing of a backhoe in a New Jersey field cuts through a major cloud provider's underground cable, bringing activity along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard to a crashing halt. The outage hits some businesses hard. Every minute of downtime means thousands of dollars of lost revenue and hordes o...
Reaching toward universal TLS SNI
The past few years have seen a dramatic increase in client support for TLS SNI a technology standard that makes HTTPS much more scaleable. While early 2014 saw fewer than 85% of HTTPS requests being sent by clients supporting TLS SNI, many Akamai customers today now see client TLS SNI usage...
Xurum: New Magento Campaign Discovered
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Magecart Attack Disguised as Google Tag Manager
Magecart skimmers constantly evolve. Recent attacks aimed at stealing sensitive customer information illustrate the need for comprehensive security solutions...
Manage Akamai Features at the Edge with EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV
EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV lets you set feature flags that tailor content to different website visitors...
Cold Hard Cache — Bypassing RPC Interface Security with Cache Abuse
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Placing Accessibility at Akamai – In Reach
Encouraging and supporting open discussions about disability and mental health at work. We define disability as a condition that affects everyday activities — physically, cognitively, and/or neurologically. In Reach helps the Akamai community understand what disability means in the workplace. As ...
Zero Trust: The Protection Model for the Post-Pandemic World
One year and a half following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we're seeing most companies either maintaining their remote work policies or slowly moving to a hybrid model. In fact, an estimated 36.2 million Americans will be working remotely by 2025, which is nearly double pre-pandemic levels...
The Edge is Becoming More Critical in a World of 5G and IoT
The edge is becoming more critical in a world of 5G and IoT. I've seen the evolution from 1x to 3G to 4G and now 5G over the many years I've worked in the mobile space, and 5G and IoT will drive the biggest changes we have seen on the edge in 10 or 20 years. This discussion is happening in the...
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...
My Path to Akamai
Three years ago, I graduated with a bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering Mechatronic from University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. I was to be an engineer in the oil and gas industry - but the universe had a better plan for me. Instead, I stepped into IT, providing Technical Support despite my...
Record 0-Second SLA PPS Mitigation
Record-High 312 Mpps Attack Mitigated in 0 Seconds On May 2, 2020, Akamai blocked a large PPS-focused attack against one of our financial services customers in 0 seconds, utilizing a proactive mitigation posture. This was one of the largest PPS levels we have on record, and the biggest mitigated ...
Phishing Trends Position ISPs to Protect Subscribers
Akamai just released the 2019 State of the Internet SOTI security report: Phishing - Baiting the Hook featuring findings from the enterprise and carrier research teams. They've been collaborating for two years to develop better methods for evaluating massive volumes of anonymized, live-streamed D...
Drive Greater Efficiencies in Reaching a Distributed Audience with One-to-Many Delivery
The Challenge: Achieve Consistent Contribution while Maximizing Audience Reach Audiences are becoming increasingly distributed not only from a geographical perspective, but also in the channels viewers use when consuming live content. Content providers need a solution to efficiently and easily...
Threat Identity...The First Line of Defense
Last quarter, we discussed zero trust and identity in regard to remote application access. This focus was primarily looking at enterprise users seeking to gain access to applications on a network where there are no boundaries: The internet. In the concept of zero trust, the internet is considered...
Election Readiness 2018
2018 is a pivotal year for the integrity of our electoral process. The threat to the digital infrastructure of our elections is proliferating to a level that has not been seen before. Officials are working tirelessly to protect your vote by proactively identifying vulnerabilities and targeting...
Make way for HTTPS - Starting July 2018, Google Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as "not secure"
Days of clear-text HTTP, the original but insecure foundation for data communication over the web, are numbered. Over the past few years, Google and others such as the Internet Architecture Board, Mozilla, and Apple have nudged developers to encrypt and authenticate their websites using HTTPS whi...
What to expect for this year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday
Last year during holidays, US online sales surpassed $122 billion. This represented a 12 percent increase over the previous year. But beyond the overall growth, what's more interesting is that sales at physical stores dropped by 10 percent, the result of ongoing consumer comfort with and adoption...
Regain reliability and control over the cloud with Application Load Balancer
It's no secret that businesses are rapidly adopting Cloud Service Providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform for cost efficiency, agility, scalability and global distribution to serve their customers more easily. A recent IDG survey indicates that 70% of...
DDoS Attacks against DNS Infrastructure in the News
DNS-based DDoS attacks have gained mindshare among Akamai customers lately, most recently with last year's Dyn attacks written about on the Akamai Blog here and here and this week's attack against Cedexis. DNS infrastructure is a ripe target for malicious actors hoping to disrupt a digital...