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Akamai Focused on "What's Next" Following New Traffic Milestone
Akamai hit a new milestone last week when web traffic delivered across our edge network peaked at 200 terabits per second Tbps. To be blunt - that's a whole lot of data traveling the world in a very short amount of time. We believe we can make a good case that it's more than the entire reported...
Is MFA a Security Illusion?
A recent Akamai Security blog post, Massive Campaign Targeting UK Banks Bypassing 2FA, written by my colleague Or Katz, is a great insight into how attackers used very simple techniques to bypass two-factor 2FA authentication security to obtain access to U.K. consumers' bank accounts. The attack...
Client-Side Protection is Key to Web Application Security
The Open Web Application Security Project OWASP Foundation defines script attacks as a "type of injection in which malicious scripts are injected into otherwise benign and trusted websites."1 From the perspective of the user, malicious code is coming from trusted websites. Recently popularized by...
Enterprise Threat Protector Now Includes One-Click Performance Optimization for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 is becoming the essential productivity suite for enterprises. Over 1 million companies have now signed up for the service, and every month there are more than 200 million active users. Microsoft Teams alone has 75 million active users every day. If your company already uses or is...
Out of the Grace Period: Trust and Communication Rises in a Post-CCPA World
Six months ago, the California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA was put into effect, granting California residents increased rights over how their personal data is gathered and shared by the companies they interact with. Leading up to its launch, organizations expressed concern over whether they were...
SIRT Advisory: Silexbot Bricking Systems With Known Default Login Credentials
On June 25th, I discovered a new bot named Silexbot on my honeypot. The bot itself is a blunt tool used to destroy IoT devices. Its author, someone who claims to be a 14-year-old boy from Europe, has made his...
CloudTest Vulnerability (CVE-2019-11011)
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Protecting your Domain Names: Taking the First Steps
Everyone and everything on the Internet depends on the Domain Name System DNS being functional. The DNS has been a common vector for attacks in recent years, and 2019 seems to be no different. Many of these attacks have goals far more sinister than simply taking a company offline or defacing a...
Akamai Edge Security - Intelligent protection coming to a city near you!
Having knowledge and visibility is just as important as products and technology when it comes to detecting and combating the latest attacks on the Internet. At Akamai, we protect customers from many of the largest and most sophisticated attacks in the world, and we are launching a series of Akama...
New State of Online Retail Performance Report Available
It's springtime, and the only people with the holidays on their minds are in the retail business. This holiday season was a record-breaking one, with combined revenue for Black Friday and Cyber Monday alone exceeding $11.5 billion. To build on that momentum, smart retailers will take a closer loo...
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...
Measure What Matters: Your Competitive Advantage May Lie in Your Understanding (or Lack of Understanding) of What Users Are Really Experiencing
Attracting and retaining customers lies in your ability to offer an exceptional digital experience. Now that digital channels are increasingly preferred over channels of the past, the climate is increasingly competitive -- and businesses are fighting to maintain loyalty and keep users engaged...
The Pitfalls of Guest Wi-Fi
Do you remember the days before mobile broadband was commonplace and connection speeds on 2G wireless were barely usable? How often did you seek out a specific location such as a coffee shop or a hotel that offered a free or more likely purchasable Wi-Fi connection? Times have changed. Now, we...
The Botconf Experience
By Yohai Einav, Amir Asiaee, Ali Fakiri-Tabrizi and Alexey Sarychev Originally Posted on January 4, 2018 Earlier this month we took our show on the road, presenting some of our team's work at the Botconf conference in beautiful Montpellier, France. We could talk here for hours about the food, win...
Impact of Meltdown and Spectre on Akamai
Overview On Wednesday, January 3rd, researchers from Google Project Zero, Cyberus Technology, Graz University of Technology, and other organizations released details about a pair of related vulnerabilities, dubbed Meltdown and Spectre. These vulnerabilities appear to affect all modern processors...
Media Acceleration Enhances Online Experiences for OTT Video, Games and Software Downloads
Online audiences are growing and so are their expectations for the quality of experience. You know exactly what I mean if you've ever been frustrated with the rate at which a game is downloading or if your video stalls at the most inopportune time. Online streaming is no longer novel, it's the...
Introducing AI Assistant for Akamai Web Security Analytics
Discover how AI Assistant for Akamai Web Security Analytics helps SOC and AppSec teams investigate events faster and take guided action with natural language...
Operationalizing Offensive AI: An Open Framework for Modern Security
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What Changes When You Move Your Logic to the Smarter, More Connected Edge?
Discover how moving logic like mass redirects, data transformation, and bot triage to Akamai Functions lowers latency, reduces origin load, and cuts costs...
How Akamai Defended an Indian Bank Against Record-Breaking DDoS Attacks
Learn how Akamai successfully neutralized one of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded in the Indian banking sector before a single customer was impacted...
Decentralized Threat: Stealthy P2P Cryptominer Targeting Ollama Endpoints
The Akamai SIRT uncovered a custom P2P Trojan masquerading as system activity. Learn how to detect and mitigate this stealthy Go-based cryptominer...
CVE-2026-42945: Mitigating a Critical Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in NGINX
Discover CVE-2026-42945 NGINX Rift, a critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability. Learn about the affected versions and critical patch updates...
CVE-2026-31979: The Symlink Trap — Root Privilege Escalation in Himmelblau
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The Grim SessionReaper (CVE-2025-54236) Comes to Collect for Halloween
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How Search Engines, LLMs, and Third-Party Scrapers Affect Bot Management
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Why SaaS Companies Are Adopting Distributed Cloud Computing
A study commissioned by Akamai included asking more than 250 global SaaS developers about their perceptions of distributed cloud. Their answers may surprise you...
Comparing the Benefits of Microsegmentation vs. VLANs
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Beyond Vulnerabilities: Why API Abuse Is a Critical Challenge
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What Does XDR Have to Do with API Security?
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Expert Cybersecurity Awareness: Test Your Attack Knowledge
Hey, security experts: Can you recognize an attack from the code alone? Test your attack knowledge skills with this quick quiz...
Akamai World Tour 2023: Let’s Connect on Security and Cloud Innovation
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What Proposed New Changes in the OWASP API Security Top 10 Mean for You
The new OWASP Top 10 for API Security release candidate is a fantastic step in an API-specific direction, emphasizing the distinct nature of API threats...
Akamai: Protecting Life Online with Secure Internet Access
Easily deliver value-added security services to families and businesses with Akamai Secure Internet Access services for ISPs and MNOs...
Conti?s Hacker Manuals ? Read, Reviewed & Analyzed
Conti is a notorious ransomware group that targets high-revenue organizations. They were first detected in 2020, and appear to be based in Russia. It is believed that the group is the successor to Ryuk ransomware group. According to Chainalysis, The ransomware group was the highest grossing of al...
Building the Future — Akamai’s Outlook on the Linode Acquisition
Akamai announced our intent to acquire Linode. The acquisition is intended to create the world’s most distributed compute platform. This new cloud to edge platform will make it easier for developers and businesses to build, run, and secure applications, especially given the complexities of Web3...
Making the Internet Resilient: Part One
Think how many websites you visit or videos you stream. Do you check your bank account or transfer money, download apps, play music, share updates on social media, or use the internet for any of the thousands of other digital experiences it enables every day?...
Preparing for Holiday Traffic During COVID-19
We are headed into an unprecedented holiday season as COVID-19 continues to impact the world. For many, this means changing traditions and celebrating without family nearby. For Akamai, it means preparing to support our customers in a holiday commerce season of opportunities and challenges like...
Optimize Video Streaming Performance to Reduce Viewer Churn
Why Improve Viewer Experience? Why Now? As online video viewership continues its march to digital mediums and platforms, viewer expectation around the quality of experience is also maturing. Increased video streaming choices and the low cost of switching providers are leading viewers to churn if...
Smart DNS for the New Network Edge
People depend on the internet for just about everything: interacting, learning, transacting, traveling, working, and more. At the same time, the wireless evolution to 4G -- and soon 5G and Wi-Fi everywhere -- has given birth to an era of connected cars, smart sensors, and a multitude of other...
Addressing the Video Quality and Performance Measurement Gap with Quality of Performance (QoP) Metrics
Ubiquity of Digital Video Means Meeting Viewers' Quality Expectations Digital video viewership is on an aggressive growth course. Globally, consumers will spend 84 minutes a day watching online video in 2020, up 25% from 2018i, and digital video viewership will increase from 35% in 2019 to more...
Edge DNS: Zone Apex Mapping & DNSSEC
Along with its DDoS resilience and impressive global footprint, Akamai Edge DNS offers zone administrators additional technical flexibility and implementation options to improve performance and simplify DNS operations. One example is zone apex mapping ZAM, a feature that enables top level hostnam...
How Credit Unions Can Optimize & Secure the Mobile App Experience
A small army of digital natives are about to become the largest generation globally. Gen Z, those born after 1996, will account for 32% of the world's population 7.7 billion in 2019 and outnumber millennials for the first time, according to World Economic Forum. This year, it will be critical for...
Akamai Welcomes Girls Who Code
Akamai employees in Cambridge have started to see some new faces around the office for the summer - 20+ high school juniors to be specific! For the fourth consecutive year, Akamai is partnering with Girls Who Code to host a seven-week long summer immersion program dedicated to closing the gender...
What's New with Prolexic
There have been two constants in DDoS over the last 10+ years: an ever-changing threat landscape and continuous growth in attack sizes. Akamai's Prolexic platform has stood the test of time, but we are continuing to invest in ways to make our customers' experience more valuable and relevant. I'm...
Do you believe in Serendipity?
In December 2016, after a month of mountain bike racing and touring in Nepal, I commenced the Executive Program in General Management at MIT. The first term was at Sloan School of Management in Cambridge and for the first time in my life, I finally could relate to studying. In fact, I was even...
Telegraph delivers better experience with Image Manager
The Telegraph Media Group TMG is a multi-media news publisher and its titles include The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and The Telegraph website. Today, its site serves more than 380 million pages to over 84 million unique visitors every month across the globe, featuring on average about...
Inside AI-Powered WAF Detections: Architecture and Safety Controls
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Secure Healthcare Networks with Zero Trust Device Segmentation
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