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Getting It Done: It’s Go Time for Bold Leadership in Sustainability
Sustainability professionals from around the world convened in New York City for Climate Week NYC 2022, exploring the theme of the week to “get it done.”...
The Internet Architecture Board Takes on Sustainability
Join Akamai and the Internet Architecture Board to make shift happen. Let's work together to make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. GreenWithAkamai...
Holiday Readiness, Part II: Best Practices for Detecting and Mitigating Attacks
Stay one step ahead of bad actors this holiday season with best practices to detect and mitigate attacks...
Akamai Turns Up Linode Past 11
Akamai plans to add more than a dozen data centers, equipped with Linode’s full product suite – across North America, APAC, LATAM and Europe by the end of 2023...
DDoS in Financial Services: What to Know and What to Do
Akamai explores trends of recent application-layer DDoS attacks across the Financial Services industry...
How to Fight Video Piracy: Notes from a Real-Life Battle
Video streaming is increasing and so is video piracy. Learn more about these types of piracy cybercrimes, and how to be proactive in stopping them...
Phishing Is Still a Security Challenge
Phishing is not a new security problem. In fact, it’s been around since the earliest days of email when most users received numerous emails from African kings or other high-ranking officials who promised them great riches if they simply provided their bank account details. Things have changed a l...
Making the Edge Work for You
For many people, “building at the edge” may conjure fantastical images of nearly sci-fi–like computational power embedded on devices all around us, crunching massive volumes of data. We’re getting there. Today’s reality is that more workloads are moving to the edge to take advantage of the...
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...
Mitigating Spring Core “Spring4Shell” Zero-Day
When Spring, the Java-based application, fell victim to cyberattacks, Akamai's Adaptive Security Engine detected zero-day attacks and protected customers against them...
Powering and Protecting Online Privacy: iCloud Private Relay and Information for Akamai Customers
See how Apple worked with Akamai to launch iCloud Private Relay. Learn about the service and how it can be best leveraged for Akamai customers...
What’s New for Developers: February 2022
A lot has happened since we published our January recap blog. Akamai launched a new documentation site on readme.io, we started a new season of Terraform Tapas, and we saw many amazing contributions from our Developer Champions...
Operational Readiness and Response to the Ukraine Crisis
Akamai’s security and network teams use our vast view of internet activity to closely monitor and act upon potential cyber threats, and we are taking appropriate measures to review our defensive posture and ensure the integrity of Akamai systems and the Akamai network...
The Crypto Revolution Reaches Fever Pitch for Today’s Phishing Scammers
Akamai threat researchers tracked continuous cyberattack and crypto-phishing campaigns that took advantage of cryptocurrency-based scams...
Abuse and Fraud Prevention's Co-Created Future — Predictions for 2022 and Beyond
Explore some of the Akamai Abuse and Fraud Prevention team’s predictions for the future of abuse and fraud protection in 2022 and beyond...
Magecart Skimmers Are Alive and Well – Constant Vigilance Is Required
Magecart skimmers are here to stay, and they’re becoming more sophisticated, more creative, and harder to detect. In this post, we reveal a new skimmer infrastructure that targets ecommerce sites all over the world with advanced methods of detection evasion and obfuscation...
Black Friday Web Traffic Up Over 2020
Online retail traffic that Akamai delivered during Black Friday was up 2% globally compared to Black Friday 2020 and 14% compared to average Friday retail traffic. The modest year-over-year increase can be attributed to the significant rise in 2020 traffic due to COVID-19–related lockdowns and...
Open Finance — 5 Reasons to Consider Akamai
The increased use of smart devices, improved connectivity, and today’s hyper demanding customers are driving the need for digital transformation in the finance sector. Emerging technologies like open banking are creating new opportunities for both incumbent banks and fintechs...
Holiday Readiness, Part One: What you Should be Thinking About Four Months Out—Security
The beginning of August is upon us, and if you haven’t already started thinking about the busiest time of the year, now is a good time to do so. Whether you’re an experienced veteran of managing peak traffic or new to the game, Q4 can bring surprises when it comes to performance and security. And...
Akamai Helps Q-dance Bring Its Tribe to Defqon.1 at Home -- a Global Virtual Festival Experience
Every year, Q-dance part of the ID&T group, a Dutch electronic music experience company, delights its die-hard fans or their "tribe" at the world's largest hardstyle festival, Defqon.1. Helicopters, simulated earthquakes, special moments like Power Hour, and amazing shows make up the unique...
Better Real User Monitoring with BoomerangJS and Akamai mPulse
In this blog, we'll walk through a few different snippet insertion methods and available optimizations...
XITE Music Video Platform Amplifies Entertainment with Akamai's Help
With so many people around the globe seeking socially distanced fun and solace, at-home entertainment has never been more important. XITE aims to offer the best music video experience in the world. Akamai is delighted that this exciting, interactive video platform chose to work with us to provide...
Ohana — An Impact an ERG Can Make
Akamai's Ohana ERG launched in 2015, along with a number of other ERGs, with the mission to broaden and facilitate the inclusion and contributions of employees of African American, Black, Hispanic, and Latin American descent and association...
Building an A/B Test with EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV
When paired with our new EdgeKV distributed key-value database, the Akamai EdgeWorkers serverless platform gives you the ability to do powerful things at the CDN level...
Micro-Segmentation Security for the Hybrid Cloud with NVIDIA BlueField DPUs
Looking for software-defined yet hardware-accelerated data center infrastructure? And how NVIDIA Bluefield & Guardicore Centra can help...
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...
Gambling, Social Media, and 10 Years of Streaming the 'Big Game'
Thanks to the unique perspectives we have via the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform, we're able to observe massive amounts of web traffic and data that provide insights across the various industries Akamai serves. In the wake of Super Bowl LV, we're sharing some observations on gambling traffic an...
How Client-Side Protection & Compliance Detects Real-World Magecart Attacks
In this blog, we will take a look at and break down a recent Magecart attack detected and mitigated by Client-Side Protection & Compliance. The impacted customer operates a large international e-commerce business in which one of its websites was compromised with a malicious script...
Congratulations to 2020 Akamai Partners of the Year
Last year proved to be a year like no other. We faced unforeseen challenges, including adjusting to a new way of working, collaborating, and conducting business. It is an honor for me to announce the Akamai Partners of the Year for 2020 who went above and beyond in this tumultuous year. These...
A New Skimmer Uses WebSockets and a Fake Credit Card Form to Steal Sensitive Data
A new skimmer attack was discovered this week, targeting various online e-commerce sites built with different frameworks. As I write this blog post, the attack is still active and exfiltrating data...
Three Cloud-First Akamai Initiatives for Your Cloud Journey
According to a 2020 State of the Cloud Report, 61% of organizations plan to focus on cloud migration this year and 93% have a multi-cloud strategy. This means that on average your organization is using 2.2 public clouds, multiplying your complexity and costs...
New Guide: How Akamai Helps You Protect Privacy Data
Laws and regulations related to personally identifiable information PII are continuously being enacted around the world as data breaches and abuses persist. According to the February 2020 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 132 out of 194 countries had legislation put in place to...
Change the Rules Speaker Event
Akamai's Women's Forum Americas, OHANA and In Reach Employee Resource Groups recently hosted Cross ERG 'Change the Rules' Keynote - Celebration of Black History Month in our Chicago office. We were excited to have notable Michelle Silverthorn, CEO of Inclusion Nation, a company that focuses on...
Why You Need Cloud-Based Security for Agile, Innovative and Lean IT
Digital transformation isn't just a buzzworthy trend or a finite phase for today's businesses. Rolling adaptation to an ever-changing environment and continuous digital evolution has become the new normal for enterprises -- the key to success in this agile, demanding, and hyper-connected age. To...
HTTP Cache Poisoning Advisory
Summary On January 14, 2020, CERT CC published an advisory warning of the potential use of Content Delivery Networks CDNs to cache malicious traffic. Akamai acknowledges this issue and has been aware of similar research in the past. This advisory...
Akamai Identified as a Leader Among Zero Trust Providers by Independent Research Firm
We are pleased to share that Akamai has been identified as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem Platform Providers, Q4 2019. In the report, Forrester evaluated how each vendor's portfolio maps and delivers on specific components of the Zero Trust eXtended ZTX framework...
From the Beginning: Internships With Akamai
At Akamai, our internships are both unique and meaningful. What do we mean by this? Well, we believe an internship should add real, significant value to an intern's skill-set. So, not only do they get to learn on the job...
In Conversation: New Starters
The world is changing. At Akamai, we're proud to be part of the shift towards a more inclusive future. Where digital systems may replace human processes, we are determined to keep people at the center of our focus. After all,...
Our Ceiling, Their Floor, Educating the Future
Throughout this blog series, we've been discussing the future of tech in relation to our young people. At Akamai, our outreach programs and forward-thinking culture have positioned us as part of the movement determined to make the world better for...
Bots Tampering with TLS to Avoid Detection
Researchers at Akamai observed attackers using a novel approach for evading detection. This new technique - which we call Cipher Stunting - has become a growing threat, with its roots tracing back to early-2018. By using advanced methods, attackers are...
Introducing Guardicore Cyber Threat Intelligence
Introducing Cyber Threat Intelligence CTI, a freely available resource to assist in identifying and investigating malicious IP addresses and domains...
Quiz Phishing: One Scam, 78 Variations
Over the past year, Akamai Enterprise Threat Research team monitored the usage of one particular phishing toolkit in the wild. We previously wrote about this phishing toolkit as "Three Questions Quiz". The "Quiz" toolkit is not new to the threat landscape, as its been used in many phishing...
Giving Back through Danny Lewin Community Care Days
Akamai was fortunate to have Danny Lewin as a co-founder and role model for our business, our culture, and our sense of adventure and accomplishment. It was Danny who helped to instill the Big Idea that we would change the...
VLAN Network Segmentation – What are The Hidden Costs?
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We Are Akamai: What Led Us Here
About Akamai and the blog We are the people at the heart of the internet. Every day, we work together to protect our customers, deliver ultimate experiences in the digital world, and connect people from far corners of the planet...
The Dark Side of APIs: Part 1, API Overview
Application Programming Interfaces API are a software design approach which enables software and system developers to integrate with other systems based on a defined set of communication methods. APIs serve as software building blocks and allow for software reuse - essentially allowing fast...
Passing the Online Torch from Rio to PyeongChang
Lighting the flame marks the beginning of PyeongChang, commemorating the ancient Greek myth of Prometheus stealing fire from Zeus, and connecting the games to its predecessors. The lighting ceremony has provided some of the most iconic moments, such as Muhammad Ali lighting the flame in Atlanta i...
Introduction to DNS Data Exfiltration
Written by Asaf Nadler and Avi Aminov Updated 2/14/19 After the initial publication of this blog post, Asaf Nadler and Avi Aminov wrote a paper on the detection of malicious and low throughput data exfiltration over the DNS protocol. The...
How to Build Virtual Python Environment
In the DevOps world, getting a consistent development environment is crucial. In this post, I'll show you how to set up a virtual Python environment and install the correct libraries to achieve a consistent development environment...
Low Risk Threat: DDoS Extortion Letters
Summary Adversaries calling themselves the Lizard Squad have been sending businesses extortion letters, demanding payment in bitcoin to prevent a Distributed Denial of Service DDoS or other attack against their applications. These letters have been sent to businesses across the globe and across...