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Kaseya Supply Chain Ransomware Attack
On July 2, 2021, Kaseya disclosed an active attack against customers using its VSA product, and urged all on-premise customers to switch-off Kaseya VSA. Shortly before this alert, users on Reddit started describing ransomware incidents against managed security providers MSPs, and the common threa...
The Countdown Has Started - The Move Toward Zero Trust and MFA
In early May 2021, the President of the United States issued an executive order on cybersecurity, and though it will take some time for executive branch agencies to develop formal rules, the order itself includes a lot of what I consider to be best practice in cybersecurity, including the use of...
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...
HTTP/3 and QUIC: Past, Present, and Future
You may have seen the announcements over the past two weeks -- the IETF QUIC RFCs have been published! That leads to a lot of questions, depending on how closely you've followed this space...
It's Official - Akamai is a Great Place to Work
When Akamai Costa Rica won the 'Great Place to Work' award, we were delighted. It's a wonderful achievement that really means a lot to Akamai and to all the collaborators who have worked here. It highlights the great working environment that Akamai have created for us. But it also shines a light ...
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...
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...
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...
Caught on Camera: Rethinking IoT Security
We all know that we're on camera pretty much constantly -- most coffee shops, convenience stores, and even offices employ security cameras for protection. But what happens when those devices built to keep us safe become unsafe?...
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...
Akamai Offers Free Tier for Client-Side Edge Security
In March 2020, Akamai saw a dramatic 30% rise in internet traffic -- equivalent to an entire year of growth. Post-pandemic, we believe there will be a return to normal internet traffic growth, but many things will never be the same...
Akamai Startup Program: Fostering Innovation
Akamai, the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences, continues to focus on innovation by launching Cohort 2 of the Akamai Startup program...
Bitcoins, Blockchains, and Botnets
A recent piece of malware from a known crypto mining botnet campaign has started leveraging Bitcoin blockchain transactions in order to hide its backup C2 IP address. It's a simple, yet effective, way to defeat takedown attempts...
Can Edge Computing Exist Without the Edge? Part 3: The Economics of Edge Computing
Do the math. For the past decade, digital businesses have been investing in digital transformation initiatives. The promise is to increase top-line growth while maximizing customer lifetime value. As infrastructure improves, IT spending is shifting from the cloud to the edge. But while edge...
Optimizing for Performance, One Hire at a Time: Part 1
It's a lot of fun to imagine and design the best team. As managers, it's rare that we get to build a team from the ground up and all at once...
Edge Redirector Cloudlet Gets Faster
Cloudlets Policy Manager often takes a long time to load, which is a by-product of its original design where every policy activation is an individual file. These files must be moved around the network, and as you might imagine, transferring thousands of files in a multi-tenant network can take a...
Sustainability Requires Collaboration: Akamai's Growing Community and Supply Chain Initiatives
Akamai is committed to collaboration that inspires worldwide change. We know it's not enough to be environmentally conscious solely in our own business. To make a true impact on climate change, we need to use our unique position as a global corporation to encourage our partners to join us in taki...
Smart DNS for the New Network: Optimizing Content Delivery
The presence of public "over the top" DNS resolution alternatives is a strong motivator for ISPs to invest in making their DNS resolution infrastructure the best that it can be. Resolvers are the glue that binds subscribers to their fixed and mobile broadband services. Operators of public DNS...
Stopping Active Attacks with Penalty Box
Unfortunately, today's sophisticated web application threats have gained some advantages over typical WAFs: Favorable odds -- WAFs must correctly identify attacks 100% of the time, whereas attackers have the luxury of only needing to find a single bypass or evasion Temporary fixes -- Many WAFs us...
Distinguishing Among DNS Services Part 2: The Economics
This is Part 2 of a 3-part blog series highlighting some of the distinguishing aspects of Akamai's DNS services, Edge DNS and Global Traffic Management...
Distinguishing Among DNS Services Part 2: The Economics
This is Part 2 of a three-part blog series highlighting some of the distinguishing aspects of Akamai's Domain Name System DNS services, Edge DNS and Global Traffic Management...
The dangers of firewall misconfigurations
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Phishing JavaScript Obfuscation Techniques Soars
In our previous blogs, first where we explained JavaScript Obfuscation techniques and introduced a detailed overview on how JavaScript is being used to obfuscate page content to make phishing attacks and other web scams as evasive as possible; followed by one where we took a deep dive to examine...
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...
The Bondnet Army
Guardicore Labs has recently picked up Bondnet, a botnet of thousands of compromised servers of varying power. Managed and controlled remotely, the Bondnet is currently used to mine different cryptocurrencies and is ready to be weaponized immediately for other purposes such as mounting DDoS attac...
Watch Your Step: The Prevalence of IDN Homograph Attacks
The internationalized domain name IDN homograph attack is used to form domain names that visually resemble legitimate domain names, albeit, using a different set of characters 1. For example, the IDN...
Staying Healthy, Focused, and Above All Grateful During the COVID-19 Crisis
By now, we are all subject in one way or another to the far-reaching impact of COVID-19. As we see on the news each day, the numbers of those infected by this deadly coronavirus continue to grow in terrifying increments. And even for those of us without family members or friends directly impacted...
The Building Wave of Internet Traffic
The Novel Coronavirus, and the resulting viral respiratory illness caused by it, COVID-19, is changing our world. As much as possible, people around the world are practicing social distancing. This means working remotely for a large number of people, possibly...
Tech That Makes a Difference: Sustainability
As the Internet grows, so does energy usage. As a result, all large tech organizations have a responsibility to monitor and improve their impact on the environment. At Akamai, we are well aware of the impact we can have, both...
Akamai Partners with Supplier To Meet Sustainability Goals
Akamai strives to mitigate the impact of our operations while maximizing and enhancing the benefits of our sustainable business practices. We are working hard to hit our sustainability goals by: creating a more sustainable platform through reducing network energy intensity by way of engineering...
The Massive Propagation Of The Smominru Botnet
In this post, Guardicore Labs provides an in-depth analysis of the attack campaign, focusing on victim analysis and attack infrastructure...
In Conversation: It's Never Too Late
There can be barriers to pursuing a career in tech. For many people, the journey isn't straightforward. Many of our Akamai employees have diverse backgrounds and have overcome obstacles to pursue their dream career. Often, the way forward into a...
Latest ECHOBOT: 26 Infection Vectors
Introduction Since the release of the Mirai source code in October of 2016, there have been hundreds of variants. While publishing my own research, I noticed that Palo Alto Networks was also examining similar samples, and published their findings. Earlier...
Words of Wisdom: Advice for Pursuing a Career in Tech
The introduction of AI into the workplace is creating uncertainty over the future of employment. However, research shows that tech will create "133 million" more jobs before 2022 than it will dissolve, as "new entities in the economy replace obsolete...
The Leaders of the Future: Tech for Growing Minds
Jobs in the STEM and Tech fields are growing at "three times the pace of non-STEM jobs." The rise of technological advances means the tech industry is not slowing down anytime soon. In the next decade, there will be 1...
Avoiding Security Misconfiguration
Security Misconfiguration exposes networks to risk on premises and the cloud. What do you need to know to limit firewall security misconfiguration?...
Life at Akamai: Making Connections
By the numbers, Akamai's scale, reach and ability to help brands connect users to immersive and immediate online experiences while protecting their businesses from threats, is quite impressive. While I'm proud that Akamai connects with billions of devices daily and...
How-To: Add Timing-Allow-Origin Header to Improve Your Website Performance Measurements
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Spotlight on Malware DGA Communication Technique
Written by Avi Aminov and Or Katz Overview Imagine you are standing in the middle of a crowded train station and want to have a private conversation with an old friend. You've been waiting for the perfect time to contact him and get some advice on how to move forward with some important life...
Keep Your Tech Flame Alive: Trailblazer Rachel Bayley
In this Akamai FLAME Trailblazer blog post, Rachel Bayley encourages women to step into the unknown and to be their authentic selves...
Zero-Day Dominance: How Akamai Defends Before the Industry Discloses
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Not the Coyote, but the Road Runner: The Reality of Autonomous AI Attacks
Autonomous AI security threats aren't novel super-weapons. They're relentless, low-tech attacks that never stop. Learn why traditional defenses fail...
With Val Kilmer’s AI Twin, Is Gen AI Forcing Hollywood to the Edge?
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Your AI Cost Model Stops at the Token Price. The Bill Doesn't.
Your AI cost model stops at the token price, but the bill doesn't. Discover why almost 80% of production AI spend sits in inference and how to optimize your setup...
Distributed AI Inference: Why Placement Is the New Bottleneck
In real AI systems, bottlenecks don't disappear, they move. Learn about why inference placement, not raw compute, is the decisive infrastructure question...
The Internet Has a Front Door — The Edge Is Now Intelligent
Recent improvements in the capabilities of the edge network have created a smarter, more connected edge. These changes call for a reassessment of edge strategy...
Scale Faster: A Practical Guide to Building with Akamai Block Storage
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AI in Vulnerability Discovery: A Call for Human Oversight and Caution
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