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9 Malware Types Enterprise Professionals Need to Know
Learn about nine malware types so that you can take steps to protect your enterprise business and your customers from cyberattackers...
Why Game Companies Are Adopting Distributed Cloud Computing
Global game developers are providing improved performance, better in-game experiences, and boosting gamer retention with distributed cloud computing...
Akamai Recognized as a Customers’ Choice for Cloud WAAP for the 5th Year
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How Effectively Are You Deploying Segmentation to Mitigate Cyberattack Risks?
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KeyTrap Highlights Need for Enduring DNS Defenses for Service Providers
DNS resolvers must be highly resilient to malicious activity like DoS attacks and cache poisoning. Akamai CacheServe delivers enduring defenses...
Leaking NTLM Credentials Through Windows Themes
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The AnyDesk Breach: Overview and Recommendations
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Akamai’s Perspective on January’s Patch Tuesday 2024
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What Is Distributed Cloud and Why Should You Care?
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6 Strategies to Combat Advanced Persistent Threats
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The High Stakes of Innovation: Attack Trends in Financial Services
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Exploiting SteelSeries' Subapplication Mechanism for Privilege Escalation
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CVEs: What They Are, and Ways to Mitigate Their Impact
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Hot Topics at Healthcare Conferences: From AI to Cyber Insurance Costs
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Our Journey with FlexBase Emissions
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The Most Common Combosquatting Keyword Is “Support”
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What’s New for Developers: March 2023
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Akamai’s Perspective on March’s Patch Tuesday 2023
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Resource Limit Increases for EdgeWorkers Yield Big Results
Read about how EdgeWorkers reduced errors resulting from resource limit constraints — unlocking even more opportunities for businesses...
Emulating KmsdBot’s Command and Control and Examining Its Attack Traffic
Read about the global impact of KmsdBot, a botnet that hit our honeypot earlier this year, and why the evidence is pointing toward it being a DDoS for hire...
Is Stopping a Ransomware Attack More Important Than Preventing One?
Microsegmentation can stop a ransomware attack from moving laterally across your organization and prevent malicious behavior...
Akamai Wins Brandon Hall Gold Award in Extended Enterprise Learning
For the third consecutive year, Akamai Global Services has won the coveted Gold Award from Brandon Hall Group...
Purple Fox Rootkit Now Propagates as a Worm
Purple Fox is an active malware campaign targeting Windows machines. Up until recently, Purple Fox’s operators infected machines by using exploit kits and phishing emails...
New Prolexic Partner Megaport Now Live in Australia
As part of Akamai’s focus on serving local market needs, we are thrilled to announce new Prolexic connectivity options via Megaport Elastic Fabric in Australia...
Feature Spotlight: Extending Zero Trust Segmentation to the MacOS
Announcing our new agent for MacOS endpoints. Of all the leading Zero Trust segmentation providers, Akamai is the only vendor to support MacOS...
Bots Are Scalping Israeli Government Services
Bots can be used for good, but can also be nefarious. In this post, see Akamai's research on the Israeli Gamken bot copycat...
How Akamai’s Employees Help Us Achieve Our Sustainability Goals
Learn about our commitment to environmental sustainability, Akamai Earth Month, and other campaigns that inspire employees to take action to protect the planet...
What’s New for Developers: May 2022
Read on to get information on Akamai’s new managed database service powered by Linode, to watch a fun video on DDoS attacks, and more...
RPC Runtime, Take Two: Discovering a New Vulnerability
Patching and bug hunting is a cyclical process. See part two of our Patch Tuesday RPC Runtime research, updated for May 2022...
Protecting Your Healthcare Organization During Uncertain Times
Explore three ways healthcare organizations can boost cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, and ransomware protection to prepare for potential cyberthreats...
Undetected Attacks on Anti-Malware Agents Using DNS Spoofing
Although we’ve made significant progress as a community in this regard, there are still instances in which the outcome of DNS spoofing attacks can go undetected. In this article, we describe a DNS spoofing attack that goes unnoticed by users...
What's Driving Multi-Factor Authentication Adoption?
The need for businesses to deploy MFA for the protection of employee accounts has never been greater — according to the latest Verizon Data Breach report, nearly 80% of data breaches involve the use of stolen or compromised employee credentials and brute force logins...
Keeping Up with the Botnets
It’s no secret that the global pandemic increased opportunities for threat actors and cybercriminals to target financial services. Throughout 2020, scammers used the economic tension caused by COVID-19 — the promise of financial assistance, the stress of financial hardship — to target people acro...
Strategy for the Office Anywhere
Organizations must deploy a remote working strategy that suits the office anywhere model CIOs need to demonstrate leadership as we move out of lockdown into a new model of working in which the office is wherever the employee is. It’s time to build on this initial success and embed a remote workin...
Capoae Malware Ramps Up: Uses Multiple Vulnerabilities and Tactics to Spread
Recently, there has been a plethora of UPX packed crypto-mining malware written in Golang targeting Linux systems and web applications popping up in the news. The malware’s primary tactic is to spread by taking advantage of vulnerable systems and weak administrative credentials. Once they’ve been...
Now Live: On-Demand Learning and Hands-On Labs at Learn Akamai
I’m excited to announce our new all-inclusive Learning Hub as the single destination for all product learning resources at Akamai. This new Hub gives users the ability to choose the method of learning that suits them best, whether that’s reading through technical documentation, exploring our...
Zero Trust Should Not Give IT a Bad Name
Maybe you’ve just found out that your company’s IT organization is implementing Zero Trust. Does that mean they don’t trust you? “Zero Trust” sure sounds that way. Maybe you’ve read about it online or heard somebody talk about it in terms that equate Zero Trust with the idea that users and device...
Cutting the Red Tape: Lessons Learned from CyberThreats 2021
If I had a dollar for every time I heard the phrase “digital transformation,” I would have a lot of dollars. I’m sure you would too. We’d have even more if we counted the term “Zero Trust.” Maybe we should start counting them, now that I think about it!...
G2A's Journey to Global Growth, Part 1: Keeping Gamers and Geeks Playing During a Pandemic
Near the end of March 2020, G2A.COM saw its traffic virtually double overnight. The pandemic had just begun, and people were looking for ways to stay entertained and connected under lockdown. Not surprisingly, a lot of people turned to video games, and G2A.COM was one of the first places they wen...
Your Employees Want Passwordless. Isn't It Time You Gave It to Them?
I hate passwords. There, I said it. I dread getting an email from Akamai IT telling me it will soon be time to update my password. I procrastinate until the last possible moment instead of immediately doing what is actually a trivial process. I suspect I'm not alone in my dislike for passwords...
Crypto Threats Surge by 500%, and It's All About the Money
Previously reserved for early adopters and tech-savvy consumers, cryptocurrencies have gone mainstream -- with tech entrepreneurs and prominent financial institutions leading the charge...
How Akamai Employees Showed Up for Akamai Earth Month
Akamai employees across the globe showed up in full force for Akamai Earth Month 2021 -- our campaign to help employees take small actions at home and in their community to make a difference for the planet...
Visualize and Analyze Bots With Real User Monitoring
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Visualize and Analyze Bots with Real User Monitoring
You interact with more than just customers on your website. Bots make up a disproportionate amount of traffic, which can skew human behavior analysis data -- and cause you to make the wrong business decisions...
Supporting Akamai Communities Impacted by COVID-19
While those of us in places like the U.S. are experiencing some relief with access to the COVID-19 vaccine, it has been heartbreaking to see surges in infection, hospitalization, and death across the globe, including the dire situation in India...
Innovative Ways Customers Compute on the Edge
Moving everything closer to the edge is the key to delivering better, faster experiences to people through billions of devices around the world...
4 Helpful Features for Centra Users - Policy Monitoring and More
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Phish-Proof Multi-Factor Authentication with Akamai MFA
Today, Akamai announced Akamai MFA, a phish-proof multi-factor authentication MFA service for the workforce that delivers all of the security benefits of FIDO2 with the frictionless end-user experience of a mobile push on a smartphone. Why has Akamai introduced this new service?...
Microsoft Exchange and Verkada Hacks: Isolate Your Apps and APIs from the Internet Cesspool
It's been an interesting start to March in terms of public security incidents. This month kicked off with multiple zero-day exploits being used to attack on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server. And, as if that wasn't enough, that attack was quickly followed by the news that a hacktivis...
EdgeKV: Serverless Storage at the Edge
We are pleased to announce the launch of EdgeKV, our distributed key-value store, into beta! EdgeKV is enabling technology for EdgeWorkers, our serverless computing platform that enables developers to create services using JavaScript and deploy them across our platform. When writing JavaScript,...